help - display fish documentation — fish-shell 3.3.1 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.

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

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