vim help and netrw

[Charles Campbell]

Hello:

I have a tester for netrw which I was using to try to verify netrw
before it gets sent out.

Its failing at an odd place; it issues a <F1> key to obtain help. When I
run the test with just the one script, the help shows 18 lines, a
separator, 3 lines from the file, and a separator; the file shown is
where I launched the help request. However, sometimes it shows 20 lines
- separator - 1 line - separator, sometimes 19 lines - separator - 2
lines - separator. Vim didn't used to be so mercurial about how many
lines of help it showed. Is there an option now that I can set to tell
vim how many lines of help I want shown?

FYI: the <F1> key mapping to help:

nnoremap <buffer> <F1>            :he netrw-quickhelp<cr>

I don't want to change that mapping as its part of netrw.

Chip Campbell

[Bram Moolenaar]

There is the 'helpheight' option, it specifies the minimal height.

There was no recent change in how the height of the help window is
computed. Did you start Vim with "--clean" to avoid any scripts or
autocommands interfering?

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