Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1461 mails)

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

D. McGarrett wrote:
> Linda Walsh wrote:
> > Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > ...
> OS's  contributors  take a more friendly view of their possible users, and
> make the system more user-friendly.  I hate to say, more Windows-like, but
> at least more DOS/CPM like.  Well, flame me, I suppose, but I think this
> would be useful.

...so, Doug, let me deflect the flames from you by attracting them to
myself :-).

I've used unix for decades, and I've always despised the stupid man
paradigm.  Basically, to find anything in man, you have to know it
already, and even apropos doesn't help a lot.  A curses implementation
would have helped, but it was never developed, as far as I know.

Gnu info promised a better environment, but it was sabotaged by the
keyboard-only mindset of its writers, so it's not much of an improvement.

For an example of _good_ man pages written by old-line experts who
weren't chained to obsolete paradigms, take a look the documentation at
www.tcl.tk.  This is a beautiful example of what modern paradigms can do
with a few simple mouse clicks (really, now, does anyone here _not_ have
a mouse?).  Html is _so_ much better a way to find your needed
information, even if you already know it all.  If you don't, man and
info are more hindrances than helps.

So now, you're safe, Doug :-).

John Perry
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