JohnnyG118 Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 This is perhaps a stupid question but I haven't been able to resolve it with Google, possibly because I'm not sure exactly how to phrase what I'm asking. I'll give it a go here.I play with a lot of mods, so I use the "Help" command in the console a lot. If I need to quickly add some Firewood or something I simply type "Help Firewood" and get a reasonably short list of entries, find the item code I'm searching for and go from there. This gets a lot more difficult however if I need to search for a term that is common in the game code, like "Daedric". Let's say I want to get the item entry for a "Daedric Battleaxe of Soul Snare" or something; simply typing "Help Daedric" gives me a massive list, often larger than the confines of what the scrollable console will even register. But as soon as I type "Help Daedric Battleaxe", the console doesn't understand because it's two words. So here's my question - is there a way to get the Help command to work for something that is more than one word? I've tried basic stuff like "Help Daedric_Battleaxe" and "Help Daedric.Battleaxe", but that doesn't seem to work.
SineWaveDrox Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 Put quotes around the thing you're searching for. So for your example, you could type Help "Daedric Battleaxe of Soul Snare"
mamelukturbo Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) use quotes to enclose the multi word, i.e. help "i can haz cheezburger" or save "lol kek wut" also in console the quote might not be where it is on keyboard in my case i have to use key for @ to produce quote, I believe this has to do with keyboard layouts. edit: insanityman beat me by a minute :D well played sir Edited January 12, 2015 by mamelukturbo
JohnnyG118 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 ...*facepalm*1800+ hours of Skyrim on PC, more mods than I care to remember, and I never thought of using quotes. Thank you. You have simultaneously made me feel superlative and moronic.
KOROGG Posted September 9, 2019 Posted September 9, 2019 wow! I have been playing this crazy game for ages and kept refusing to use console commands because I try my best to always be the white hat kind of guy. I run around 400 mods. I have decided to do another restart playing my character with a supercharged set of basic equipment. Some of the Items need unique ingredients at the forge. Not wanting to drag my pretend self all over Skyrim looking for said ingredients, I caved in and began to use the console to fudge them up. Bang! The wall! some of the things that I attempted to get with the "help" command returned enough results that I could page up to the point of running out of console output ability. This produced the need for multi-word entries. Thank you for having an answer to this problem! Skyrim SE Gods be damned!
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