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.
