Feature Request: `:help` command to view the manual pages in the client #137

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opened 2025-10-14 15:40:16 -06:00 by navan · 0 comments

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2025-10-14 15:40:16 -06:00

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Originally created by @myxzos on 3/2/2025

One the biggest Vim features I miss in iamb is the :help command. While most of the keybindings are intuitive to any Vim user, there are many that I often seem to forget (which could be due to my excessive use or remappings in vim), as well as the application-specific commands. I appreciate the reminders on the welcome screen, but I would find it immensely useful to have help docs in the client that are formatted like the online docs.

It does look like there are manpages included in the repository, so it could be that my package manager (nix) is not copying them to the proper paths. When building the project locally from the flake.nix default package, the output directory contains only the application binary, so it could just be an issue when building with nix.

*Originally created by @myxzos on 3/2/2025* One the biggest Vim features I miss in iamb is the `:help` command. While most of the keybindings are intuitive to any Vim user, there are many that I often seem to forget (which could be due to my excessive use or remappings in vim), as well as the application-specific commands. I appreciate the reminders on the welcome screen, but I would find it immensely useful to have help docs in the client that are formatted like the online docs. It does look like there are manpages included in the repository, so it could be that my package manager (nix) is not copying them to the proper paths. When building the project locally from the `flake.nix` default package, the output directory contains _only_ the application binary, so it could just be an issue when building with nix.