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- From: gmiller@next.com (Gary Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Help in Edit.app -- the end of the line (command)?
- Message-ID: <5886@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:45:08 GMT
- References: <21OCT199212494808@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>
- Sender: news@NeXT.COM
- Lines: 41
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- In article <21OCT199212494808@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>
- silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar) writes:
- > Someone yesterday asked about line numbers in Edit (and I sort of
- mis-answered
- > his question, it turns out). Today I looked at the Help package that
- comes
- > with Edit (use <alt-ctl-click> to get the question-mark cursor).
- Amazing,
- > there is nothing there about the line and character range panel (which
- is
- > invoked by <cmd-l>, just as before in 2.x and 1.x.
- >
- > Dick Silbar
-
- Help in Edit only covers the commands and features found in (the new in
- 3.0) User Mode. For information about additional Developer Mode commands
- such as Line Range, you can look at the online developer documentation
- (the Edit documentation is in the Development Tools target of the
- NextDeveloper bookshelf). This bookshelf, rather than online Help, is
- where you should always look first for developer documentation.
-
- Admittedly, this is a confusing and unfortunate state of affairs, but it's
- just symptomatic of a more general problem: due to resource, time, and
- budget constraints, online help in 3.0 isn't available at all for
- applications in /NextDeveloper/Apps and /NextAdmin, and is available for
- only about half the applications in /NextApps (not to mention the lack of
- localized help, except in 3.0J). Edit is the only app which -- due to its
- two modes -- has Help for only one half of itself.
-
- NeXT maybe could have spared itself some embarrassment and criticism by
- deciding not to release what little Help was ready for 3.0, but we felt
- that it was important to provide developers with at least some
- applications that demonstrate the Help facilities that we're finally
- beginning to provide for them. After seeing the complete, consistent, and
- conforming Help systems that have already appeared with several 3rd-party
- 3.0 apps, I believe that this was the right decision.
-
- -Gary Miller
- NeXT Publications
-
-
-