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How do you go to a specific page in the user-manual? I tried vim -c help usr_05.txt -c only but that just takes you to the start of help.txt. So you still need to move your cursor to the tag for the page title in the table of contents and jump to it with <CTRL-]>

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– Display name

2019-09-29 23:14:17 +00:00
Commented Sep 29, 2019 at 23:14
Try quoting the chapter, together with the help command, vim -c 'help usr_05.txt'

bsd
– bsd

2019-09-30 09:03:51 +00:00
Commented Sep 30, 2019 at 9:03
Okay that worked. I guess commands that take an argument need to be wrapped in double quotes, which is great because now I can jump straight to a specific section with the tag command, :ta. Say I want to view just section 7.2 of the user manual, then I could run vim -c help -c "ta 07.2" -c only

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2019-10-01 02:22:32 +00:00
Commented Oct 1, 2019 at 2:22

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