On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]>wrote:
If I had to describe what shifted, it would be that spaces are the most > important parts of the script ;-) It seems to me that "screencast style" would be much better for *all* tutorial descriptions. For example, just the words of Ctrl-F script given in the post-script would be *far* easier to understand than the present (horrible!) text of the apropos-find-commands command. Here is a recipe for **screencast style**: - It consists of a series of step-by-step instructions. - Most instructions consist of a single command: do this. - Some instructions also point out features of the screen that it might be easy to miss. That's *all*. It's actually fairly easy to write in this way, and imo it is a huge improvement over the typical blah-blah-blah of descriptive text, including the docstrings for plugins that I have been wading through lately :-) If you have gotten this far, please reread the script below, and see how each line of the script follows the recipe given above. The Aha is that someone reading the script could *create their own screencast* just by following the script. That's what we want, imo. > > ==== Intro > > This tutorial tells how to use Leo's find and replace commands. > > Type Ctrl-F to start searching. > The cursor moves to the minibuffer. > > The Find Tab shows the present settings. > Underlined characters are keyboard hints. > Alt-Ctrl-W toggles the Whole Word checkbox, and so on. > > Type the search string in the minibuffer. > The enter key starts the search. > > As always, Ctrl-G puts the cursor in the body pane and stops the search. > > To search again, type F3. > > To search backwards, type F2. > > ==== Replace > > To replace text, type Ctrl-F and enter the find string as before. > Instead of enter, type Ctrl-R. > > Type the replacement string. > > The enter key starts the search as before. > > When a match is found, type the equal key to make the replacement, > or type type the minus sign to replace and find again. > > The F2 and F3 keys work as before. > > ==== Incremental search. > > Leo also has incremental search commands. > Alt-S starts an incremental search. > Alt-R starts a reverse incremental search. > > Whatever characters you types extend the search. > > The backspace key reverses the search. > > Type the enter key or Ctrl-G to stop the search. > > While searching, Alt-S finds the next instance of the search string. > > Thanks for watching this tutorial. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
