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 '15 at 17:48
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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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? Mar 7 '15 at 17:53
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@Gilles some people still post questions about it on AU/U&L - corporate environments, I suppose. :(– muruMar 8 '15 at 18:33
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You can also put the
:onlyoption in the same command:vim -c ':help TOPIC | only'Jul 26 '20 at 9:54