Nano-style on-screen help by default

[frankier]

Thanks a lot for the project. It's already at the top end of Linux bluetooth interfaces I have used in terms of comfort for me. I wonder whether it would be possible to display the keybindings by default like nano does? An equivalent of -x and set nohelp could be added.

[darkhz]

It can be implemented, but my only concern is that is could eat up screen space, especially since there are a lot of keybindings for a single screen. Wouldn't pressing the Help key suffice?

[frankier]

For me, I am occasionally using this software and so will never remember the keybindings. Of course if you prefer to put the bindings behind a help key that's still more convenient than reading documentation, but while it is very much your choice, I would make attempt to make an argument that the common user is a less frequent users and would thus be best served by the nano-style on-screen help that is easily hidable.

[darkhz]

Fair argument, and I will consider implementing this. As stated before, since there are a lot of keybindings for just one screen, and I do not want to use screen space unnecessarily, this will require some contemplation.

Maybe the main/commonly used keybindings to facilitate basic operations can be suggested to the user for each screen, I will have to check and run some tests. If you have any ideas on how to implement this, preferably with a PR or screenshots, do submit them, as they can be helpful in implementing this feature.

[hacktail]

I believe nothing more than navigation, connect/disconnect, the menu ( shortcuts? Well the bindings to show the menus ) and ofcourse the help binding should be shown.

The nagivation buttons should be concise as they will otherwise take up a huge amount of space; possibly it could be shown as this: ←/↓/↑/→ = h/j/k/l or possibly ←h/↓j/↑k/→l or maybe replace the arrows with L D U R incase we shouldn't use unicode. maybe we could display the arrows/letters/words under the bindings, like on another row?

h j k l
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[darkhz]

@frankier @hacktail, how does this look? Would this suffice? A similar set of limited help keybindings will be present on the file picker and the progress view as well.

[hacktail]

@frankier @hacktail, how does this look? Would this suffice? A similar set of limited help keybindings will be present on the file picker and the progress view as well.

Looks amazing

[darkhz]

This will be implemented in the next release, and any modifications to the help display can be further suggested by reopening this issue if it is closed.

[darkhz]

This feature has now been implemented and enabled by default, and can be disabled by:

• Using the command-line option --no-help-display
• Setting the configuration parameter no-help-display: true

[frankier]

Thanks a lot. It looks great!