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Created: March 15, 2006 Complexity: basic Author: Gerald Lai Minimum version: 5.7 Karma: 34/24 Imported from: Tip#1172

Vimdoc contains some of the most useful information on Vim found on the Internet:

Especially useful is the FAQ at:

The FAQ answers a lot of basic and advanced questions about how to perform tasks in Vim. If you ever had any questions regarding Vim, make sure you do a search through the FAQ before looking at other resources.

To make the FAQ part of Vim help, copy the file at http://www.geocities.com/yegappan/vim_faq_help.txt to the "doc" directory - for example, in Unix/Linux systems: 

$ cp vim_faq_help.txt ~/.vim/doc

Then in Vim, do: 

:helptags ~/.vim/doc

After that, to access the FAQ, do: 

:help FAQ

Also, a must-read is Bram Moolenaar's "Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing" at: http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html

[edit] Comments

This command does all that in one strike (on Linux). 

$ (cd ~/.vim/doc; wget http://www.geocities.com/yegappan/vim_faq_help.txt; vim "+:helptags .|q")

If ":help FAQ" does not work after :helptags, try 

:help vim_faq.txt

Make sure you have write-access to $VIMRUNTIME. Also, it must be in CAPITAL letters.

I downloaded and tried 

:helptags .

which gave the following errors: 

E154: Duplicate tag "FAQ" in file ./vim_faq_help.txt
E154: Duplicate tag "faq" in file ./vim_faq_help.txt

So I edited vim_faq_help.txt, and on line 11 changed 

*faq* *FAQ*

to 

*iaq* *IAQ*

and re-did 

:helptags .

("IAQ": "Infrequently asked questions)

And now 

:help iaq

works fine instead. The duplicate tag is on line 78 of intro.txt (*intro.txt* For Vim version 6.4. Last change: 2004 Jun 12)

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