On May 10, 2019, at 8:53 AM, Christopher Fuhrman <christopher.fuhrman@gmail.com> wrote:


On Fri, May 10, 2019, 15:32 Richard Kenneth Eng <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com> wrote:
So say many visitors to https://amber-lang.net/learn.html.

The problem is this: visitors are failing to read and comprehend the last instruction on the first page of the tutorial. The one that reads: Select the text below and click on the 'DoIt' button.
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How to fix this? How to avoid this PR nightmare?
I can think of at least three easy solutions:

Change the button from "DoIt" to "do the selected text"

Change the first line to:
Profstef next "(you must select this entire line of text.)"

But the best one might be:
Catch the parse error and if it's a null, remind the user she must first select the text.

Some Smalltalk implementations auto-select the entire line if nothing is selected. I like that very much.