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
>

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