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- From: cfry@MIT.EDU (Christopher Fry)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: A better "Fred Commands" help window
- Message-ID: <9208260012.AA10718@MIT.EDU>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 01:12:24 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
- Lines: 17
- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
- Original-To: yost@adobe.com (David Yost)
- Original-Cc: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
-
- > To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
- >
- > The following replaces the contents of the "Fred Commands" window.
- > Perhaps you will find it easier to use.
- As the originator of the Fred Commands window, I'd like to state
- that Yost's formatting is a definate improvement on mine. [Thanks David!]
- I'd vote for one change to Yost's:
-
- It would be good to minimize the distance between the cmd syntax and
- its function name. So I'd respell
- ForwardArrow to FwdArrow, take out an additional space and shift the
- fn names left by 4 spaces. This makes the forwardArrow lines harder to read but
- everything else easier to read.
-
- A nice extension would be to put a sentence of documentation in a 3rd column to the
- right. For instance, the meaning of "ed-yank" might not be obvious to the
- new user but a short description of it would clear up misunderstandings.
-