I am not familiar with guake and am not sure what you mean by "dropdown box". However, I will try to give you some tips on how to make using the built in help system a little more convenient.
A common use case I have is that I am looking at some vim script and wondering, what does this command/option do? Let's take this line from my vimrc:
set laststatus=2
I have configured Vim to open the help for the word under the cursor when pressing K
in a .vim
file. So what I would do is place the cursor on laststatus
and press K
. This opens a new window where I read what the options mean, and then press CTRL-w c
to close the window, and I'm back where I was.
K
is the "lookup help" command (:help K
). It usually runs man
, but can be configured to use :help
or any other command or program instead. Put the following in .vim/after/ftplugin/vim.vim
to enable Vim help with K
.
setlocal keywordprg=:help
(:help 'keywordprg
, :help after-directory
, :help ftplugin
)
Opening and closing help with K
and CTRL-c
is super-quick!
Here are some other useful related features:
- Go to anything under the cursor while in help with
CTRL-]
. Go back with CTRL-t
. (:help tag-commands
)
- Autocomplete Vim commands and functions in insert mode with
CTRL-p
. (:help ins-completion
)
Does this answer your question? What specific feature are you missing?
:q
to close the help window you can try pressingctrl+w
followed byc
K
and:q
as there is a context to restore.