On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com> wrote:
>
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > We originally showed all options, and it seemed simply overwhelming.
> > So we took a clue from perforce (which has a really similar UI) and
> > decided to show only the most common options for newbies.
> > Intermediate users will look at the whole list to see more options,
> > and advanced users just end up habituating to typing the letters they
> > want without reading the prompt at all.
> >
> > I'd rather find a way to make the full list's availability more
> > obvious, rather than flooding the novice with 10 options.
>
> OK. But showing h)elp to show more options seems poorly named. Does Perforce
> do that to?
Yep:
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