[PD] "get" method for Pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 18, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Le 2011-11-17 à 21:17:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> 
>> The last sentence is the key there.  They should not all do these things in their own disparate ways.  If the objects stick to common, well-established idioms, then all these objects will be easy use.  Just imagine the help patch of an [info] object with so many messages vs the help patch for each object and its specific task.
> 
> Yes, it's much more convenient to open 20 tiny help patches to have an overview, then have to open 1 big help patch that contains all of the info in one place... ;)
> 
> try again.

I guess you haven't seen the all_about_ patches, you can have one of those for the unified overview.  Then have each object's help patch link to this.

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