From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/config.txt: Order variables alphabetically Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:43:02 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: <87oc94spax.fsf@picasso.cante.net> References: <1291209174-9239-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> <201012011557.30849.jnareb@gmail.com> <20101201150917.GD6537@picasso.cante.net> <201012011737.53652.jnareb@gmail.com> <87vd3dv2ow.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <20101202010229.GA4832@neumann> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 02 06:55:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PO28m-00062J-Ui for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:55:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756125Ab0LBFzJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 00:55:09 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34886 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753596Ab0LBFzH (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 00:55:07 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PO28G-0005sl-Al for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:55:04 +0100 Received: from a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([91.155.187.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:55:04 +0100 Received: from jari.aalto by a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:55:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZJX9MhkXdhiIgRmIoQ5GVTlyWtA= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2010-12-02 03:02 SZEDER G=C3=A1bor : > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:10:55PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: >> Same for command line options. You read zillions of scripts and cryp= tic >> options. You want to consult manual page to see what an option means= =2E 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. That=C3=A4s real slow method. 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). [*] less(1) is not the default manual page pager everywhere.