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.
