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In article <21OCT199212494808@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>  
silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar) writes:
> Someone yesterday asked about line numbers in Edit (and I sort of  
mis-answered
> his question, it turns out).  Today I looked at the Help package that  
comes
> with Edit (use <alt-ctl-click> to get the question-mark cursor).   
Amazing,
> there is nothing there about the line and character range panel (which  
is
> invoked by <cmd-l>, just as before in 2.x and 1.x.
> 
>    Dick Silbar

Help in Edit only covers the commands and features found in (the new in  
3.0) User Mode.  For information about additional Developer Mode commands  
such as Line Range, you can look at the online developer documentation  
(the Edit documentation is in the Development Tools target of the  
NextDeveloper bookshelf).  This bookshelf, rather than online Help, is  
where you should always look first for developer documentation.

Admittedly, this is a confusing and unfortunate state of affairs, but it's  
just symptomatic of a more general problem:  due to resource, time, and  
budget constraints, online help in 3.0 isn't available at all for  
applications in /NextDeveloper/Apps and /NextAdmin, and is available for  
only about half the applications in /NextApps (not to mention the lack of  
localized help, except in 3.0J).  Edit is the only app which -- due to its  
two modes -- has Help for only one half of itself. 

NeXT maybe could have spared itself some embarrassment and criticism by   
deciding not to release what little Help was ready for 3.0, but we felt  
that it was important to provide developers with at least some  
applications that demonstrate the Help facilities that we're finally  
beginning to provide for them.  After seeing the complete, consistent, and  
conforming Help systems that have already appeared with several 3rd-party  
3.0 apps, I believe that this was the right decision.

-Gary Miller
 NeXT Publications