Sorry to be that guy, but it should at least point out it's also accessible with :help within vim.
Vim PDF Documentation
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#12This is neat until you realize that by converting it to a PDF, you lose all of the jumping around goodness that Vim offers you to help you navigate this monstrosity.
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#13Awesome. This is something that's been on my idea list for years. Set up a git tip then SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.
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#14It's helpful, and also a clever pun: there is not a lot of software that can claim a help document of a approx. 2600 pages. very correlated to the steep learning curve of vim. I fucking like it :)
2567 A4 pages in my PDF viewer. Quite neat.
Honest question: why PDF? From within Vim one uses :help and the internal hyperlinks. What do people here think the value added of the PDF is? I won't be printing it!
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#15Not too many pieces of software out there that can say their software is so well-documented, it almost takes up 3000 pages.
Is help documentation almost 3000 pages or is the source almost 3000 pages? :D
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#16It's helpful, and also a clever pun: there is not a lot of software that can claim a help document of a approx. 2600 pages. very correlated to the steep learning curve of vim. I fucking like it :)
2567 A4 pages in my PDF viewer. Quite neat. Honest question: why PDF? From within Vim one uses :help and the internal hyperlinks. What do people here think the value added of the PDF is? I won't be printing it!
> why PDF?
I wanted to ask the exact question. Nobody sits down and read it from the beginning, and without links, there is no point of a PDF.
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#17It is amazing how much I rely on Vim on a daily basis and yet how small a proportion of it I actually know.
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#18As a Kindle owner, I don't really appreciate PDFs...
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#19This is neat until you realize that by converting it to a PDF, you lose all of the jumping around goodness that Vim offers you to help you navigate this monstrosity.
The PDF is full to the brim with hyperlinks. That is the point of this.
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#20Probably would have been more helpful to link to the blog post explaining the project - http://nathangrigg.net/2013/09/reproducing-vim-help-as-a-ful.... It would be great if the top comments at least had a look at the PDF, and maybe read that blog post - the file is full of hyperlinks (that was the whole point), has a beautiful index viewable in the sidebar of Skim, and he made it because he wanted to read on his iPad, and be able to annotate...
Very cool. Would love something similar for Emacs... Maybe it exists, haven't really looked