NVIM - help k Move around: Use the cursor keys, or "h" to go left, h l "j" to go down, "k" to go up, "l" to go right. jClose this window: Use ":q<Enter>". Get out of Vim: Use ":qa!<Enter>" (careful, all changes are lost!).

Jump to a subject: Position the cursor on a tag (e.g.bars) and hitCTRL-]. With the mouse: Double-click the left mouse button on a tag, e.g.bars.Jump back: TypeCTRL-O. Repeat to go further back.

Get specific help: It is possible to go directly to whatever you want help on, by giving an argument to the:help command. Prepend something to specify the context:

Normal mode command :help x Visual mode command v_ :help v_u Insert mode command i_ :help i_<Esc> Command-line command : :help :quit Command-line editing c_ :help c_<Del> Vim command argument - :help -r Option ' :help'textwidth' Regular expression / :help /[ Seehelp-summary for more contexts and an explanation. Seenotation for an explanation of the help syntax.

Search for help: Type ":help word", then hitCTRL-D to see matching help entries for "word". Or use ":helpgrep word".:helpgrep

Getting started: Do the Vim tutor, a 30-minute interactive course for the basic commands, seevimtutor. Read the user manual from start to end:usr_01.txt

Vim stands for Vi IMproved. Most of Vim was made by Bram Moolenaar, but onlythrough the help of many others. Seecredits.

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intro Introduction to Vim; notation used in help fileshelphelp Using the :help filesindex Index of all commandstips Various tips on using Vimmessage.txt (Error) messages and explanationsuganda.txt Vim distribution and what to do with your money

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cmdline Command-line editingoptions Description of all optionspattern-searches Vim regexp patterns and search commandskey-mapping Key mapping (shortcuts), abbreviationstags Tags and special searcheswindows Commands for using windows and bufferstabpage Commands for using tabpagesspell Spell checkingdiff Comparing filesfolding Hide (fold) ranges of linesterminal Embedded terminal emulator

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tui Builtin UIgui External (graphical) UIssigns Signs displayed as window decorations (the "gutter")

digraph List of available digraphsmbyte.txt Multibyte text supportmlang.txt Non-English language supportrileft.txt Right-to-left editing modearabic.txt Arabic language support and editinghebrew.txt Hebrew language support and editingrussian.txt Russian language support and editingvietnamese.txt Vietnamese language support and editing

provider Builtin remote plugin hostsif_perl Perl interfaceif_pyth Python interfaceif_ruby Ruby interface

deprecatedDeprecated features that will be removedvi-differences Differences between Vim and Vi

dev Development of Nvimdev-arch Internal architecture, modules, data structuresdev-style Development style guidelinesdev-theme Design guidelines (colorschemes etc.)dev-tools Tools and techniques for developing Nvimdev-vimpatch Merging patches from Vim

standard-plugin-list
pi_gzip.txt Reading and writing compressed filespi_msgpack.txt msgpack utilitiespi_paren.txt Highlight matching parenspi_spec.txt Filetype plugin to work with rpm spec filespi_tar.txt Tar file explorerpi_zip.txt Zip archive explorernetrw Reading and writing files over a network

Now that you've jumped here withCTRL-] or a double mouse click, you can useCTRL-T,CTRL-O, g<RightMouse>, or<C-RightMouse> to go back to where you were.

Note that tags are within | characters, but when highlighting is enabled thesecharacters are hidden. That makes it easier to read a command.

You can useCTRL-] on any word (even if it is not within "|") and Nvim willtry to find help for it. Especially for options in single quotes, e.g.'hlsearch'.