I find my self often, especially after this site was created, opening Vim just to type :h ... or :helpgrep ....
What I would like to do is to run Vim and immediately open the help topic that I want. How can I do this?
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Use the -c argument to execute a command after Vim starts up:
vim -c ':help TOPIC' -c :only
You may want to define a shell function:
vimhelp () {
vim -c ":help $1" -c :only
}
answered Mar 7, 2015 at 17:48
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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(t)csh alias:
alias vimhelp 'vim -c ':help $1' -c :only'Commented Mar 7, 2015 at 17:51 -
3@Carpetsmoker Did you find a time machine to go back to the late 1980s/early 1990s, the time when tcsh was worth using? Can you share? Commented Mar 7, 2015 at 17:53
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@Gilles some people still post questions about it on AU/U&L - corporate environments, I suppose. :(– muruCommented Mar 8, 2015 at 18:33
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You can also put the
:onlyoption in the same command:vim -c ':help TOPIC | only'Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 9:54