Tutorial vs. help screen [Was: Re: If it is still unclear to someone...]
Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
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On 2007-03-20, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2007-03-19, Joerg van den Hoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> question: what are the ideas for achieving formatting? should this be written as a troff >> manpage like the real manpage (might be OK)? or what else? > > If it is written in troff/*, then definitely as an additional > 'ion3tutorial' man page. However, I think that a simple help screen (in the statusbar) should be much more effective than a zillion words that few bother to read. Consider e.g. the following screen toggleable in joe with ^KH (missing formatting in this message). It has all the basic bindings quickly visible, so you can just try them to find out what works. Help Screen turn off with ^KH more help with ESC . (^[.) CURSOR GO TO BLOCK DELETE MISC EXIT ^B left ^F right ^U prev. screen ^KB begin ^D char. ^KJ reformat ^KX save ^P up ^N down ^V next screen ^KK end ^Y line ^KA center ^C abort ^Z previous word ^A beg. of line ^KM move ^W >word ^T options ^KZ shell ^X next word ^E end of line ^KC copy ^O word< ^R refresh FILE SEARCH ^KU top of file ^KW file ^J >line SPELL ^KE edit ^KF find text ^KV end of file ^KY delete ^_ undo ^[N word ^KR insert ^L find next ^KL to line No. ^K/ filter ^^ redo ^[L file ^KD save -- Tuomo