How to jump to the next tag in vim help file

Question

I want to learn the vim documentation given in the standard help file. But I am stuck on a navigating issue - I just cannot go to the next tag without having to position the cursor manually. I think you would agree that it is more productive to:

1. go to the next tag with some keystroke
2. press Ctrl-] to read corresponding topic
3. press Ctrl-o to return
4. continue reading initial text

PS. while I was writing this question, I tried some ideas on how to resolve this. I found that searching pipe character with /| is pretty close to what I want. But the tag is surrounded with two pipe '|' characters, so it's still not really optimized to use.

Answer 1

Use the :tn and :tp sequences to navigate between tags.

If you want to look for the next tag on the same help page, try this search:

/|.\{-}| 

This means to search for:

• The character |
• Any characters up to the next |, matching as few as possible (that's what \{-} does).
• Another character |

This identifies the tags in the VIM help file.