On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:15:13AM -0500, Bob Heckel wrote: >On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:20:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Bob Heckel wrote: >> >Here are preliminary setup.hint's >> > >> >@ w3m >> >> Can you explain what in the documentation suggested to you that you >> needed to use this "@ w3m" tag? I have read the setup.html web page >> repeatedly and it seems really clear to me that it isn't required but >> you are at least the third person who has recently submitted a >> setup.hint with this. >> >> I'd like to correct the documentation so that I don't have to keep >> making this observation over and over again. > >The template's use of italics (http://cygwin.com/setup.html#setup.hint) >confused me. I knew I had to enter "some text" and guessed that >because "package" was italicized too, I needed to enter that. Plus, as >Igor said (thanks for the helpful comments, Igor), I needed a way to >distinguish w3m and gc hints.
You were taking something as a template which was just a list of all of potential fields available in setup.hint. I think you needed to read the surrounding text. Maybe we need to add a "Read This" section underneath or something. cgf