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Hyperbole User Manual

1.3 Manual Overview

Remember that the `DEMO' file included in the Hyperbole distribution demonstrates many of Hyperbole's standard facilities, (@xref{Top, Preface}) for more details.

See section A. Glossary, for definitions of Hyperbole terms for quick reference, so in some cases terms are not precisely defined within the text. Be sure to reference the glossary if a term is unclear to you. Although you need not have a keen understanding of all of these terms, a quick scan of the Glossary should help throughout Hyperbole use.

If you have a question, feature suggestion or bug report on Hyperbole, follow the instructions given in D. Suggestion or Bug Reporting. A few commonly asked questions are answered in the manual, E. Questions and Answers. If you are interested in classic articles on hypertext, G. References.

See section 2. Installation, for explanations of how to obtain, install, configure and load Hyperbole for use.

See section 3. Buttons, for an overview of Hyperbole buttons and how to use them.

See section 4. Smart Keys, for an explanation of the innovative, context-sensitive mouse and keyboard Action and Assist Keys offered by Hyperbole. See section B. Smart Key Reference, for a complete reference on what the Action and Assist Keys do in each particular context that they recognize.

(Keep in mind as you read about how to use Hyperbole that in many cases, it provides a number of overlapping interaction methods are provided to support different work styles and hardware limitations. You need learn only one with which you can become comfortable, in such instances.)

See section 5. Menus, for summaries of Hyperbole menu commands and how to use the minibuffer-based menus that work on dumb terminals.

See section 6. Entering Arguments, for special support that Hyperbole provides for entering arguments when prompted for them.

See section 7. Outliner, for concept and usage information on the autonumbered, hypertextual outliner. A full summary of the outliner commands that are bound to keys may be found in C. Outliner Keys.

See section 8. Rolodex, for concept and usage information on the rapid lookup, hierarchical, free text record management system included with Hyperbole.

See section 9. Window Configurations, for instructions on how to save and restore the set of buffers and windows that appear with a frame. This feature lets you switch among working contexts easily, even on a dumb terminal. Such configurations only last throughout your current editor session.

Developers comfortable with Emacs Lisp will want to continue on through to, 10. Developing with Hyperbole.

See section F. Future Work, for future directions in Hyperbole's evolution.