Help: Fn+h lists the keys of the screen you're on, and no screen names its keys any more (#69)
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Fn+h on any screen, text fields included, and ? outside Text Entry, open a
panel over the content area: the screen's own keys, then the ones that work
everywhere. Every App declares its keys for the state it is in (pages,
viewers, dialogs and text fields answer for themselves); the App manager
opens the panel and takes every key while it is open.

About 30 hint lines are gone, from every App. What stays on a screen is
state. The first-start Setup keeps its hints and teaches the key; a device
set up before gets one Toast, once. The guide and the FAQ open with it.
`key help` over the consoles.

476 host tests (8 new). Checked on the device with key help and screenshots:
the Launcher, all nine Apps and several of their states. 8.5 KB of flash and
40 bytes of static RAM. Decisions Q196 to Q203 in docs/milestones/U1.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ gnss quiet on|off pause the GNSS receiver while the LoRa radio listens (it cos
gnss status | gnss restart | gnss track start|stop | gnss nmea on|off | gnss send <sentence without $ and checksum>
crash the last crash: firmware, reason, task, backtrace
coredump erase forget the core dump in flash
key <name|char> press a key: up down left right select back home del tab space, or one character
key <name|char> press a key: up down left right select back home del tab space help, or one character
wifi status | wifi add <ssid><TAB><password>
wifi ip <ssid> dhcp | wifi ip <ssid> <address>/<prefix> [gateway] a Saved Network's IP setting
wifi dns <a> [b] | wifi dns always on|off | wifi ntp <a> [b] DNS and NTP servers
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ In **Safe Mode** (see [Crashes and Safe Mode](/dev/debug/crashes/)) only a few r
| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
| `burst` | Publishes 5 Notifications at once |
| `key up\|down\|left\|right\|select\|back\|home`, or `key <char>` | Injects a key press |
| `key up\|down\|left\|right\|select\|back\|home\|del\|tab\|space\|help`, or `key <char>` | Injects a key press (`help` is Fn+h: the keys of the screen that is showing) |
| `sound on` / `sound off` | Toggles the Sound setting (beep + LED) |
| `short` / `normal` | Screen timeouts 5 s / 10 s, or 30 s / 60 s |
| `wifi add <ssid><TAB><password>` | Adds a Saved Network (so credentials stay out of the repo) |
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## Keys
```
key up|down|left|right|select|back|home|del|tab|space
key up|down|left|right|select|back|home|del|tab|space|help
key a # any single character: it is typed
```
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Two things to know before you use them:
`Fn` combinations, modifiers and the compose key have no command: the arrows are `key up|down|left|right`, and `key back` is the back key (`` ` `` on the device). Text is typed one character at a time.
**`key help` opens the help panel** (<kbd>Fn</kbd>+<kbd>h</kbd> on the device): the keys of the screen that is showing. A screenshot of it is the quickest way to learn what a screen accepts, and it is how every screen's list was checked. Any key but the arrows closes it.
## Look before you press
**Take a screenshot before any key that deletes, renames or installs.** A blind sequence of `key` commands goes wrong the moment the screen is not where you think it is, and the screen is often not where you think it is: a Toast, a dialog that has not closed, a different App. A sequence that was meant to open a note once renamed real data instead.