On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:59 PM Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote:

Newbies only need to know how to search outlines, and which outlines to
>> search, especially LeoDocs.leo, leoSettings.leo and CheatSheet.leo.
>> Really, how hard is it to scan the top-level nodes in leoSettings.leo?
>>
>
> I think this speaks to the mode of learning with a browser open on one
> side pointed at the docs (and google and forums and stack overflow and ...)
> and the program-to-learn-about on the other side, experimenting and trying
> out the things being read about in the browser. Things which don't have
> browser-discoverable things to read are harder to learn using this common
> pattern.
>

Leo's online documentation are mostly for those who haven't installed Leo
yet.

There is no need to have a browser open.  The browser view is less useful,
and less organized, than LeoDocs.leo and CheatSheet.leo.    If that weren't
true I would not have created Leo in the first place.

Python has built in help available in any interactive session, but it's
> easier to use a reference page
> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html> than print it inline
> with the code and then losing track of the previous command:
>

LeoDocs.leo, CheatSheet.leo *are* the reference pages.

Edward

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