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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org