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- From: yost@adobe.com (David Yost)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: A better "Fred Commands" help window
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.053944.19586@adobe.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 05:39:44 GMT
- References: <9208260012.AA10718@MIT.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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- In article <9208260012.AA10718@MIT.EDU> cfry@MIT.EDU (Christopher Fry) writes:
- > 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!]
-
- Thank you. I was wondering if anyone cared.
- It's nice to hear praise from the person
- whose work you hope you've approved upon.
- And I agree with your suggestions.
-
- One more thing: The list should appear twice.
- The first time the commands should be grouped by type of function
- The second time they should be sorted by key sequence as they are now.
-
- > 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.
-
- Would you volunteer to do this? I'm new to Fred and emacs.
-
- --dave yost
-