What about changing the item names "Visit New File" into "Open New or
Existing File" and "Open File" into "Open Existing File".
I think the existing names are good.
I do not want to consider changing them again.
Hence one _definitely_ needs the help echo and it should even be more
explicit. What about changing it to:
"Create a new file, or read an existing file, and edit it."
That is rather long, but I think
"Create a file, and edit it"
or
"Specify new file's name, to edit the file"
would make more sense than the current help-echo.
Just because this command CAN access an existing file is no reason we
must design the help-echo to mention that. A complete description of
the command's range of possible behavior is not its purpose. Its
purpose is to steer users in the right direction.
In general, completeness is a mistaken goal in writing documentation.
Covering all possible ways of invoking a function, or all possible
values a variable might have, is usually just wasteful--of our time,
and the user's time. We only want to describe the cases that *should
be used*.
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