[Cuis-dev] left arrow "Terse Guide to Cuis"

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Folks,

Dan, your updates to Terse Guide are on GitHub now. Thanks!

Stes, I added a reference to "Managing your code in Cuis", and reworded 
a little. I hope it is clearer. Please check. Thanks for reporting!

Cheers,

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On 5/11/2020 10:07 PM, Dan Norton via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> Attached is an update to Terse Guide.
>
>   - Dan
>
> On Mon, 11 May 2020 16:58:21 -0400
> Dan Norton<dnorton at mindspring.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 May 2020 11:20:13 -0500 (CDT)
>> stes via Cuis-dev<cuis-dev at cuis-smalltalk.org>  wrote:
>>
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm running "Cuis" via : "squeak Cuis5.0-4112.image" and it seems to
>>> work fine.
>>>
>>> I'm relatively new to this, and I was reading the "Terse Guide to
>>> Cuis" (which is very useful), I see in the Help topic under
>>> "Assignment" :
>>>
>>> x _ 4.			"assignment (Cuis)"
>>>
>>> z := 7.			"assignment (ASCII)"
>>>
>>> The underscore _ displays in Cuis as a small cool "left arrow", I
>>> like it, very nice, really cool.
>>>
>>> Basically I think the "Terse Guide to Cuis" should also indicate in
>>> either "syntax" or "Assignment" that you can enter in the Workspace
>>> an underscore, and that it will display as this "left arrow" symbol.
>>>
>>> This may be a trivial issue to experienced users, but the Help
>>> "Terse Guide",
>>> or the Keyboard shortcuts should or could somehow clarify how to
>>> enter the left arrow from the keyboard (via the underscore
>>> character).
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Welcome! Thanks for your suggestion. It helps to have a fresh pair of
>> eyes. One of the hardest things to do is explain the "obvious" but in
>> this case, as you point out, it is not obvious how to type the
>> assignment arrow. I'm going to make some changes to Terse Guide so
>> please watch for them and let us know if more is needed.
>>
>> I hope someone else will chime in regarding Git and GitHub :)
>>
>>   - Dan Norton
>>
>>
>>> Anyway,  in the Help there is also "Using Git and Github with Cuis".
>>>
>>> It says:
>>>
>>>      Start with a standard (i.e. fresh) Cuis image. Never save the
>>> image. Set up Git repositories for external packages (if not already
>>> done) Install packages from Git repositories.
>>>      Develop. Modify and/or create packages.
>>>      Save own packages (to Git repositories).
>>>      Git add / commit / push as appropriate.
>>>
>>> But how is this working in practice, I have the impression that this
>>> part of the Help is a little bit too terse ...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> David Stes
>>>
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