help - display fish documentation — fish-shell 4.8.1 documentation

# help - display fish documentation

## Synopsis

    help [SECTION]

## Description

`help` displays the fish help documentation.

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

The -h or --help option displays help about using this command.

If the `BROWSER` environment variable is set, it will be used to display the documentation. Otherwise, fish will search for a suitable browser. To use a different browser than as described above, you can set `$fish_help_browser` This variable may be set as a list, where the first element is the browser command and the rest are browser options.

## Example

`help fg` shows the documentation for the fg builtin.

## Notes

Most builtin commands, including this one, display their help in the terminal when given the --help option.