words (and commands) that I learnt because of Branden (was: preferred /proc/<pid>/xxx style?)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Branden!

On 12/9/22 22:03, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex & Mike,
> 
> Alex, you beat me to this one...
> 
> At 2022-12-09T20:43:21+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>> personally i find that jarring to read because it's using italics
>>> for the whole path except for the pid which has no styling at all.
> 
> I submit that it is more jarring to have to have a file specification
> with mixed literal and variable components, such as
> 
> /var/log/epidemic/pid/port
> 
> and have it all marked up in the same typeface without a visual clue as
> to which part is nonliteral.  (Observe the ambiguity.)  Yes, "the
> experienced user will usually know [which part to replace]".[1]  To rely
> on that principle in documentation is a deriliction of duty.

Your emails are the reason I know and often use dict(1).  Lol.

$ dict deriliction
No definitions found for "deriliction", perhaps you mean:
gcide:  Dereliction
wn:  dereliction
moby-thesaurus:  dereliction

And yes, dereliction has a definition compatible with your use.

Cheers,

Alex


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