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[David Caro <611141@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I checked and the man command is the one that adds the status line with the help message (press h for help and q to quit).
So no the pager is no solution, also the machines where I made the tests, the less command does not show the help tooltip :(

I propose adding a status bar at the bottom (maybe above the buttons),
where the tooltip is showed, and also we could use it to show more
messages (config saved, command added, could not read config file -
check for permissions, etc.).

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Title:
  It is not obvious that "q" must be pressed to exit help (man pages)

Status in CLI Companion:
  Fix Committed
Status in CLI Companion trunk series:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  It is not immediately apparent to the target audience that "q" must be
  pressed to exit the help function (man pages).

  When showing CLIcompanion to a group of four people who were
  unfamiliar with the terminal (i.e. the target audience for this app) I
  noticed that they were pressing "ESC", "enter" & "CTRL"+"x". They also
  tried clicking on the "help" button again. One user closed the app (by
  clicking on the close "X" window control [top left corner]) & then re-
  launching the app to workaround this problem.

  Once I explained to them that they need to press "q" & then "enter"
  they were able to continue using CLIcompanion.

  "ESC" seemed to be the first option all of these four users tried
  first. Perhaps we could map "ESC" to exit the man page?

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