How to open different man page section in VIM (with K shortcut)?

Question

Often times, there are name overloading for man page sections. For example, I tried to lookup

getopt(...)

with SHIFTK and vim opened GETOPT(1) but actually I wanted GETOPT(3) because I'm writing C-program.

Is there a way to specify which man page section to open in VIM?

Did you even try to read the documentation for `K`? See `:help K`. — romainl, Jun 01 '16 at 20:06
You're right... I should've done it before I posted. 3K is what I'm looking for. I'll close this question. — Patrick, Jun 01 '16 at 20:09
Doesn't look like I can close on my own. I can either delete or leave this open. (Perhaps it will still help others.) — Patrick, Jun 01 '16 at 20:10

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '16 at 20:13

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Thanks to romainl, I looked up vim help and the proper way to do it is

<section number>K

i.e. 3K under getopt will open GETOPT(3).

answered Jun 01 '16 at 20:13

Patrick

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