dlbond

1. Assistance option: is there any way to slow assistance down? 

i.e. delay the pop-up balloons by a second or two. Most times I don't want assistance - it often gets in the way of quick patching - but when stuck, I do want to hover an inlet and get help. Any way to do this? This would be a convenient feature IMO.

Or is there a hotkey/ shortcut that can be set up to toggle assistance on and off? 

I can find nothing in the documentation on this. Thanks in advance.

2. Searching - max search works well if you know exactly what you're looking for and what it's called. If not there's little chance in finding. Is there a way to cast a big net [google type search] and then get out the harpoons later for precisely spearing the subject? 

[spent months looking for ioscbank, because I didn't know its name or how to search for it. Can't find anything on hot key prefs for menu items, etc.] Any searching suggestions/ strategies that may be helpful?

1. Assistance option: is there any way to slow assistance down? 
i.e. delay the pop-up balloons by a second or two. Most times I don't want assistance - it often gets in the way of quick patching - but when stuck, I do want to hover an inlet and get help. Any way to do this? This would be a convenient feature IMO.

Or is there a hotkey/ shortcut that can be set up to toggle assistance on and off? 
I can find nothing in the documentation on this. Thanks in advance.

Speaking of documentation:
2. Searching - max search works well if you know exactly what you're looking for and what it's called. If not there's little chance in finding. Is there a way to cast a big net [google type search] and then get out the harpoons later for precisely spearing the subject? 
[spent months looking for ioscbank, because I didn't know its name or how to search for it. Can't find anything on hot key prefs for menu items, etc.] Any searching suggestions/ strategies that may be helpful?

Assistance prefs; searching tips?