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

Giles Constant wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:10:53 Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> At risk of starting a flamewar, I personally dislike all the ctrl-k shortcuts, 
> so I reconfigured them.  I don't want to have to hit three keys at different 
> ends of the keyboard to do a simple action!  If you're doing it repeatedly, 
> it can get very clumsy.


I was commenting on the idea of having a help screen, not any particular 
choice of bindings.  It would be great if the help screen could take 
into account rebinding.