>> All the commands are hidden away and can only be accessed by pressing 
>> the secret keyboard shortcuts. 
> 
> This is not quite true. What *is* true is that you have a whole bunch of 
> buttons that reveal menus full of other commands, and getting to an 
> operation without keyboard shortcuts takes forever.

Well no, I mean for example: If you press [space], a whole bunch of 
stuff appears. I can't immediately see any other way of getting at any 
of those commands.

Now, if you didn't know that pressing [space] makes that stuff appear 
(and why would you?), you're going to have a hard time finding any of 
those commands. And it seems every page I read, I discover more secret 
key combinations that pop up new menus...

There's nothing *wrong* with keyboard shortcuts, but it does make the 
learning curve rather steep.

> But yeah, you have to use it, and when you stop it goes away again, 
> because there's no mnemonic way of using it.  (Unlike wordstar, whose 
> keyboard commands I still remember 30 years after I stopped using it.)

Currently my main problem is with figuring out the general principles 
the UI works under. Stuff like... clicking a menu item makes the menu 
open, but clicking it again doesn't make the menu shut. Wuh?

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