.. _cmd-help:

help - display fish documentation
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Synopsis
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::

    help [SECTION]

Description
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``help`` displays the fish help documentation.

If a ``SECTION`` is specified, the help for that command is shown.

If the BROWSER environment variable is set, it will be used to display the documentation. Otherwise, fish will search for a suitable browser.

If you prefer to use a different browser (other than as described above) for fish help, you can set the fish_help_browser variable. This variable may be set as a list, where the first element is the browser command and the rest are browser options.

Note that most builtin commands display their help in the terminal when given the ``--help`` option.


Example
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``help fg`` shows the documentation for the :ref:`fg <cmd-fg>` builtin.