Remapping :help in Vim to open in a new tab

Question

The default behaviour of :help in Vim opens the help in a horizontal split.

I need to remap :help to instead execute :tab help as to always open the help in a new tab.

How can I remap this command?

Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3878692/aliasing-a-command-in-vim — weynhamz, Nov 04 '12 at 05:22

score 31 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '10 at 12:09

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:cabbrev help tab help

answered Jun 28 '10 at 12:09

sleepynate

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See [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7515418/79125) on how to prevent the above abbreviation from converting `:e help.txt` to `:e tab help.txt` (which would give you an error). – idbrii Aug 04 '12 at 22:09
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Thanks @pydave, here is the command for lazy copy pasters like me: `cnoreabbrev h getcmdtype() == ":" && getcmdline() == 'h' ? 'tab help' : 'h'` – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Dec 13 '13 at 09:55

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