On Sep 8, 12:39 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, kcrisman<kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Are there any other things you get complaints about that aren't listed
> >> here?
>
> > I'll try to think of things; I am quite sure that things like drop-
> > down menus for commands would be popular, but I don't think we're
> > going that direction.
>
> I'm not at all opposed to at least doing design work in that direction!
Then go ahead and do that. Even having a proof-of-concept for
something like "highlight function, do something (copy?) pull down
action menu, pick *plot*, and return" would be useful, because it
would enable someone (not me) with the ability and desire to take the
notebook and make it usable in that way.
Or even a clickable list of functions (organized in sublists)
somewhere near the help button, just as a quick reference for (say)
all number theory pre-imported commands, not one that would *do*
anything.
I know #6001 has been steadily getting ready for prime time... does
that include the possibility of highlighting and querying? Often I
have created Obj = command1(command2(old-object)).newcommand and want
to ask for help on newcommand because I forgot the syntax, but ? there
just yields some kind of error. A related thing for usability is
#5644 - sometimes the docstrings are so long you forget what you were
doing.
Incidentally, will the notebook rewrite be done in stages that we can
test out, or released as a big thing all at once sometime late this
fall? It was great to have time to test TinyMCE before the release,
for instance.
- kcrisman
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