Where is the help document for VIM? Look here.

I've always wondered how a good software like Vim doesn't have a detailed documentation.

Again excellent, novice will not use is useless ah. Besides, who was born to be a veteran?

Only that simple tutor?

Although this tutor can be used, but as the "God of the editor" does not have this function?

Do you have to buy "xx Guide" and other books to manipulate the "God of the editor"?

Not too! (although I also bought a book, it Feels good.) The book was bought before I found the document. If you find this document before you buy it ... Have no if)

A casual, I found, not without cheats. But I'm looking for the wrong posture.

Ms-windows

If you have vim under Windows, there is a directory in the installation directory vimxx (XX stands for the version number). Entering this layer directory, you will find a lot of files and folders, one of which is called Doc is the directory where the document is located. Inside the usr_xx.txt (wherein, XX denotes the sequence, 01, 02, 03 ... ) is the help document.

Taking the author's VIM74 version as an example, the path to the document is as follows:

D:\Program Files\vim\vim74\doc

*nix

Under Windows There are, of course, *nix.

Oh, no, no, why not?

Is the posture wrong again?

I left to the right, up and down, back and forth, looking everywhere or not.

Helpless, I opened the terminal, entered the command VI , entered the VI and entered : help command, the results are as follows:

The Vim online help isn't installed on this Debian gnu/linux system.

Why?

Because the "Vim-runtime" package containing it was not installed.

This may happen if your administrator have chosen to install as only Vim variant
The "Vim-tiny" package. The "Vim-tiny" package contains a minimal version of
Vim compiled with no graphical user interface and only a small subset of
Features in order to keep small the package size.

Since the "Vim-runtime" package was rather huge when compared to "Vim-tiny",
Installing the latter does not automatically install the former.

The default is not installed AH.

Let's just pretend.

In Ubuntu, for example, enter the following command in the terminal sudo apt-get install vim-runtime , it can be installed, as shown,

Once the installation is complete, you can see the document by entering the directory /usr/share/vim/vim74/doc . Like under Windows, it's not much to say.

Under Mac OS, the path is similar to Ubuntu. Note that the version number is OK.

Note: These help documents (Usr_xx.txt), in other editors, are plain text, and the layout is a bit messy when viewed. So recommended in VIM view, neat structure, color clear, but also to watch while practicing, how good!

Where is the help document for VIM? Look here.