Re: Tutorial vs. help screen [Was: Re: If it is still unclear to someone...]

Geoffrey Alan Washburn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> 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   

	I think this sounds like a great idea.
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