This is sound logic, I can't find fault with it. It may make sense for somebody who types these many times a day but some people will use clones far less. In this case the three letter abbreviations will obscure and hinder "discovery". I like the idea of command aliases for those that used certain commands frequently.
On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:31:54 PM UTC-5, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > > Hola > > I think that the "ola" or "one letter abbreviations" are bad style and > they difficult the reading of code and commands. I know that typing results > easier but that sacrifices reading by writing. In some languages that use > long descriptive words there is an active use of self-completion hints in > the environment, so a balance between reading and writing can be found. > From the usability/readability point of view, some kind of code/completion > suggestions in the node body and/or mini-buffer would be a good direction > in helping leo to cause the best first impression that is looked in 5.2 > releases. > > Anyway the new energy in the community (with Edward as a driving force) is > really good and I imagine that some kind of personal configuration could be > enable to let short aliases to be used (but hopefully they'll not be the > default). > > Cheers, > > Offray > > On 06/03/16 20:06, SegundoBob wrote: > > For almost all commands, print-commands tells you something about the > command because the commands contain at least some full works. For > example, search-forward and search-backward. These new cf* commands are > inconsistent with this pattern. Perhaps a description could be appended to > the cf* command lines: > > cff - Clone Find Flattened > cfa - Clone Find All > > So I tried Alt-H, C (open CheatSheet.leo) and found nothing about the cf* > commands. > > So I tried F11, "cff" and got "no docstring available" > > Alt-H, F (Help for Find Commands) --- I found nothing about the cf* > commands. > > Finally, I tried Alt-H, D (open LeoDocs.leo) and I found good > documentation for the cf* commands. > > Perhaps the current state of the documentation is optimal. Making > print-commands, the CheatSheet.leo, etc. more complete and consistent could > easily make them too large to be useful. But I think it is annoying that > F11 (Help for command) has no help for some commands. > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
