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>> 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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