Where can I read about the various modes in Vim?
4.5. How do I generate the Vim help tags file after adding a new Vim help file? You can use the “:helptags” command to regenerate the Vim help tag file. For example: :cd $VIMRUNTIME/doc :helptags . For more information, read :help :helptags :help add-local-help 4.6. Can I use compressed versions of the help files? Yes. You can compress the help files and still be able to view them with Vim. This makes accessing the help files a bit slower and requires the “gzip” utility. Follow these steps to compress and use the Vim help files: – Compress all the help files using “ggzip doc/*.txt”. – Edit the “doc/tags” file and change the “.txt” to “.txt.gz” using :%s=\(\t.*\.txt\)\t=\1.gz\t= – Add the following line to your vimrcc: set helpfile={dirname}/help.txt.gz Where {dirname} is the directory where the help files are. The gzip.vim plugin supplied with the standard Vim distribution will take care of decompressing the files. You must make sure that $VIMRUNTIME is set to where the other Vim files
