A couple of days ago I finally saw the correct relationship between documentation and good user interface design.
The principle is simple: Documentation is important as a reference, but Leo must be usable "out of the box" without a newbie reading any docs. Kent said almost exactly the same thing earlier, but I only fully understood the principle when a newbie complained recently (in essence) that the Insert and Delete keys didn't insert/delete nodes when the outline pane had focus. Now they do ;-) We are talking about *basic* operations here. Imo, the principle doesn't apply to Leo's more complex operations. Still, Leo's Help menu now contains help-for-creating-external-files and help-for-scripting, so significant "scents to goals" exist in plain sight. Edward -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
