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The line looks like this
.. vim: set ft=help norl ts=8 tw=78 et :
And appears at the bottom of some text files, such as vim documentation.
I just want to know where I can look this topic up in the vim help to read about it.
It is called a modeline.
See
:help modelinefor more information.Basically, it is a way to tell Vim how to render a text file.