nemesis wrote:
> Exactly.  Blender feels to me closer to vi than anything else.  You just 
> press regular keys and contextual commands are issued.

Yeah. Some of the abbreviations are kind of unintuitive, along with the 
linking between items and such. I need to link my ME: to my MA: or 
something, and I spend an hour figuring out wtf that means. :-)

> Blender's official user-level documentation 
> is a wiki so it may simply not have catched up with source modifications.

Yes. That's what boggles my mind - that you'd start coding some changes 
without first writing down anywhere what the changes are supposed to 
accomplish.  If you add a new button to the interface, is it hard to write 
three sentences describing what the button does?  It doesn't have to be 
complete professional-grade documentation, but at least tell people what the 
abbreviations on the buttons stand for so someone else can write the 
documentation. :-)

If users have to read the code to figure out what it does, you're doing it 
wrong.  But of course, this is pretty much SOP with free code - why would 
you document it if you wrote the code yourself to be used by yourself? It's 
a strange world, popular complex software developed for free by the whim of 
volunteers.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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