I agree this would be great! I have no idea what most of the menu items do. It makes me wonder that I'm using only a small fraction of the capabilities of this terrific tool.
Rob............ On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 2:21:49 PM UTC-4, tfer wrote: > > As I fumbled around in Leo Menus trying to do half remembered things, (its > been a while since I've used it), I thought that we should borrow from the > prompts Inkscape provides to make this easier. > > In Inkscape, down in the status bar context sensitive hints are displayed. > For instance, as you go through the menus, you get an explanation of what > the currently highlighted menu item would do. For Leo, say we have Edit > > Edit Body > highlighted: > > - "Create a new node named by the first line of selected body text and > a body made of the other selected lines, then deletes that selection." > - (if some lines are selected in an active body pane) > - "Create a new node named the line the cursor is in (leading > whitespace stripped)" > - (for when we have the cursor or a selection in a single line) > - "Needs to have cursor in, or lines selected in an active body pane > to work" > - (for when menu item is inactive) > > This would make Leo easier to use > -- 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.
