> On May 10, 2019, at 8:53 AM, Christopher Fuhrman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 10, 2019, 15:32 Richard Kenneth Eng <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > So say many visitors to https://amber-lang.net/learn.html > <https://amber-lang.net/learn.html>. > > The problem is this: visitors are failing to read and comprehend the last > instruction on the first page of the tutorial. The one that reads: Select the > text below and click on the 'DoIt' button. > ... > How to fix this? How to avoid this PR nightmare? > I can think of at least three easy solutions: > > Change the button from "DoIt" to "do the selected text" > > Change the first line to: > Profstef next "(you must select this entire line of text.)" > > But the best one might be: > Catch the parse error and if it's a null, remind the user she must first > select the text.
Some Smalltalk implementations auto-select the entire line if nothing is selected. I like that very much.
