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

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