One question about the Vim documentation?

[Mike Bent]

Dear Sir or Madam,

File: $vimruntime/doc/vi_diff.txt

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Vim starts with 'nocompatible' automatically if you have a .vimrc

    file.  See |startup|.

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What does mean |startup| in the documentation?

I do not find anywhere where is |startup|.

Where is |startup|?

I look forward to reading you

Yours fatihfully

[Gary Johnson]

On 2020-08-09, Mike Bent wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> File: $vimruntime/doc/vi_diff.txt
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Vim starts with 'nocompatible' automatically if you have a .vimrc
>
>     file.  See |startup|.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> What does mean |startup| in the documentation?
>
> I do not find anywhere where is |startup|.
>
> Where is |startup|?

That means that startup is a help topic. You can open the
documentation file (the help file) containing that topic, with the
cursor on the keyword, by executing

:help startup

or by placing the cursor on the word startup and typing

Ctrl-]

You can read more about this by executing

:help

Regards,
Gary

[Matt Ackeret]

On Aug 8, 2020, at 8:19 PM, Mike Bent <frt...@boribar.com> wrote:

Dear Sir or Madam,

File: $vimruntime/doc/vi_diff.txt

-------------------------------------------------

Vim starts with 'nocompatible' automatically if you have a .vimrc

    file.  See |startup|.

-------------------------------------------------

What does mean |startup| in the documentation?

I do not find anywhere where is |startup|.

Where is |startup|?

Just type :help startup

in vim.

The |startup| is a tag.  From :help help

Jump to a subject:  Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit CTRL-].