From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: RE: How dow we educate our users to configure less?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:11:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60da10df509f0_1b95d2089c@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60bfadc0aca09_1abb8f208fd@natae.notmuch>
Felipe Contreras wrote:
> It has been suggested that we "educate our users" to configure less in
> the right way, instead of colorizing man pages ourselves [1].
>
> The question is *how*? Nobody has answered that.
>
> This is a continuation of the thread below.
> I am still waiting for an explanation.
>
> How does the user properly colorize man pages for both man and git in a
> way that works in all distributions?
No response.
It's safe to say at this point that nobody knows what that configuration
would look like.
So we cannot "educate our users" to do something that doesn't exist.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-28 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-08 17:49 How dow we educate our users to configure less? Felipe Contreras
2021-06-28 18:11 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-06-28 18:46 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-28 19:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-28 19:34 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-28 19:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-28 19:58 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-28 20:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-28 20:37 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-28 20:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-28 20:56 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-06-28 21:09 ` Felipe Contreras
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