From: On Behalf Of Andy Wokula
> The very first help page
>      :help
> is a must-read.  It says, to find a cmdline-specific key, prepend "c_":
>      :h c_^L
> or
>      :h c_CTRL-L

Ah, thanks. I haven't read the first page in...  decades I guess. Even
so, it probably would not have occurred to me to use _commandline_
help to locate something about _searchmode_ behaviour, even thought
there is a cross-reference in there.

I guess my new method is to try the naive ':he <xyz>' first, then try
each of the c_, i_, etc next. *Then* google.

> > The help is implemented with tags, and I've often wondered why ':tn'
> > doesn't do the obvious thing and take you to the next related help
> > topic. In this case cycling through ':redraw',<search's ctrl-l help>,
> > <whatever>, etc.
> 
> Maybe because this idea isn't so obvious for other people?

:-) I guess it's obvious to tags users (programmers, largely).
Although, elsethread I came to the conclusion what I really want is
something more like an index, instead of strictly tags, which implies
a manually-built tags file. :-(

> At least there is a todo item (without priority):
> 
>      :h todo|/^Help
> Help:
> -   When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn"
> to go
>      to the other matches.

Nifty! I have learned two things about vim today.

...Stu

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