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@@ -75,6 +75,63 @@ OPTIONS:
      Do not fetch ocean map from Yppedia.  Instead, use copy in DIR.
 
 
+USER INTERFACE:
+===============
+
+There are some things that won't be obvious from the user interface.
+
+The black square with the blue square inside it is the panner for the
+map.
+
+If you get an error message from Acquire, or a message about the
+notes, shown as a red, yellow or blue message below the Acquire or
+Reload Notes button, you can click on the message to get a pop-up
+window with the full error message.
+
+Colonised islands are shown with names in black; uncolonised in grey.
+Dotted routes are unpurchaseable charts.  (Information from Yppedia.)
+
+If you click on one of the little white icons on the map, you'll see
+an explanation of what that icon string means appear in the top right.
+Each element of the icon is explained in turn from left to right.
+Then you'll see a list of the ships represented below, ordered by
+owning pirate (if known) and then by name.
+
+The "Show" panel allows you to filter the displayed ships.  If you
+don't select "These:" then none of the other controls in the "Show"
+panel have any effect, so touching any of the latter sets the overall
+filtering style back to "These:".
+
+"Copy island names" makes where-vessels "copy" (as in "copy and
+paste") a comma-separated list of the names of the islands at which
+selected ships are present.  You can then paste this into other tools
+(eg, the YARRG website).  (Technically, "copy island names" claims the
+X Primary Selection.)
+
+"Display/combine details" allows the map display to be decluttered by
+squashing together differing ships:
+ * "Size round down": selecting a size means that every ship of that
+   size will be rounded down to the next un-selected size.  Naturally
+   you cannot select sloops for rounding down!
+ * "Lock/owner": "Yours?" simply pretends that all unknown ships are
+   not yours; that is useful if your crew has many ships and you only
+   bother writing about your own ships in the notes.  "For you" shows
+   the vessel lock status, except that if it's your ship and unlocked
+   it shows just that it's yours (and doesn't show whether it's
+   unlocked or crew use).  "Lock" shows the lock status only.
+ * Flags: See perlop(1) on the tr/// (aka y///) operator.  All
+   characters entered into the boxes are literal; ranges etc. are not
+   supported.
+Filtering done by the "Show" panel takes effect before the collapsing
+done by "Display/combine details", so you can filter on details which
+you are collapsing for display.
+
+If you select (click on) one of the ship names in the list in the top
+right, you'll get an icon string below the vessel list which gives the
+complete information for that vessel, as it was before the collapsing.
+
+
+
 VESSEL NOTES:
 =============