On May 25, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:

> 
> Hans said:
>> did you try to simply select the function and press CTRL+H or right-click 
>> for content menu and select "Show Help for current Function”?
> 
> fantastic Hans!
> PS: I looked in the help menu and saw nothing like “help on selection 
> cntrl-H” …. that would help with newbie discovery (like me :-) )
> 
> Simon said:
>> the GUI behaves slightly differently, but no one noticed ;). Due to the 
>> special treatment of the prompt, the commands concerning the beginnings of 
>> things have special work-arounds, so for example beginning of the line 
>> equals beginning of the paragraph in the GUI. However, this is what people 
>> most commonly want, so I'm not sure it's abad thing. I'll see if I can make 
>> the behavior consistent, though.
> 
> Would be great: it is unusual not to be able to left-arrow out of a 
> selection. Maybe I can get used to Cmd–left-arrow to go to beginning of line: 
> I think I use the shift key to highlight so I can attend the new location of 
> the cursor more easily.
> 

Now fixed.

Cheers,
Simon

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