After several hours of investigation, I concluded that there is no
*reasonable* way to support Alt-key hints in Leo's find pane.
When the new find pane was visible these hints destroyed the Alt-X, Alt-A
(etc) user bindings!
Worse, these hints presupposed Leo's standard key bindings. They would be
misleading if someone innocently changed them.
For these reasons, and many others, I have concluded that these hints must
go. Rev 6351 did that.
Happily, there are several ways to "discover" these Easter Eggs:
1. The commands that toggle the checkboxes and radio buttons now appear in
the Search menu.
2. The help-for-find-commands command now tells how to use the minibuffer
to remind yourself of these commands:
<Alt-X>tog<tab>f<tab> or
<Alt-X>set<tab>f<tab>
Using the minibuffer to discover (remind oneself of) key bindings is a
trick every Leonista should know.
Naturally, the screencast about the Find command is out of date. Rather
than redoing it, I'll attempt to cut out the section about the Alt-x
hints. True, the video will still *show* the Alt-x hints, but that will
not detract from the performance. Repeat after me: perfectionism is not our
friend.
I'll redo the video later, when many other important videos have been made.
This will give me the opportunity to show the new Search menu and to show
how to see key bindings using the minibuffer.
Finally, redoing the screencast is on the list. Please do *not* file a
wishlist bug on this topic.
Edward
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