From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/config.txt: Order variables alphabetically
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:32:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101202093258.GA7035@neumann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oc94spax.fsf@picasso.cante.net>
Don't cull the Cc list.
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:43:02AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 2010-12-02 03:02 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:10:55PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> >> Same for command line options. You read zillions of scripts and cryptic
> >> options. You want to consult manual page to see what an option means. Again
> >> you're searching A-Z.
> >
> > When I want to look up X or a command line option seen somewhere, I
> > never search A-Z. I always search using the pager's or browser's
> > search function. And when it found what I was searching for, then I
> > much prefer to see related options on the same screen.
>
> Thatäs real slow method.
Based on my own experience, I disagree, ...
> You don't need specific search function (or reliance on those
> availability[*]) when you can just tap
>
> PgUp
> PgDown
>
> to locate the information by visual cues (A-Z).
... and therefore I much prefer using the search function.
> [*] less(1) is not the default manual page pager everywhere.
I assume that nowadays search-capable pagers are much more widespread
than non-search-capable ones.
Gábor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-01 13:12 [PATCH] Documentation/config.txt: Order variables alphabetically jari.aalto
2010-12-01 13:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-01 14:34 ` jari
[not found] ` <20101201142920.GB6537@picasso.cante.net>
2010-12-01 14:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-01 15:09 ` jari
2010-12-01 15:19 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-12-01 15:33 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-01 15:37 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-01 16:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-01 17:10 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-01 18:03 ` Jeff King
2010-12-01 23:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-02 1:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-12-02 5:43 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-02 9:32 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2010-12-02 5:46 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-02 9:24 ` SZEDER Gábor
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