[ben509]

Don't forget "whatis" as your standard third entry point on Unix.

macOS does have a standard Help menu, and you can even live search from within it; it'll find a command within the menus and show you where it is, even if it's deeply nested. Or it will search through help topics if the application provides them.

> And context sensitive so it may not even be possible to see actions until certain condition is met.

That's gotten worse as developers have jammed more and more features into applications, to where they can't lay out their commands in the traditional menus.

We somewhat dodged a bullet in this regard. Apple and Microsoft both did experiments in component software back in the '90s, with Object Linking and Embedding on Windows and OpenDoc on the Mac.

They flopped for a variety of reasons, but one was the insane complexity of the UI: any object in a document was now potentially a mini application and had to negotiate control of the UI with other objects.