I usually work in a drop-down terminal, running about 25 characters high. Since I prefer tabs to windows1, usually a lot of horizontal space is wasted - around half of the terminal width. On top of that, Vim, with the default setting of helpheight, leaves just about a couple of lines of the file content when I open a help window:Is there a way to make :h use a vertical split?I could:decrease helpheightuse <C-W>L to manually move the windowmake a map or a custom command which does the above for me.Is there a simpler way?1I do use windows when I need to look at multiple files together. But usually I prefer each file to be in its own (mental) context.
How can I make Vim open help in a vertical split?
vim windows;help system