On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:53:33AM -0500, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 02-Oct-03, 21:59 (CDT), Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The Users Manual starts with a section on the non-interactive interface. > > > Huh? > > > > I suppose the command-line interface could be documented later, but > > it's usually documented earlier. Or are you objecting to the odd phrase > > "non-interactive interface"? > > I think his point is that if one is in the "interactive interface", and > uses the the menu to view the User's Manual, one is probably not too > interested in the command line options. :-) The command line options > should probably be left out of the text displayed in the interactive > environment, or moved to the end.
I see. It's a lot simpler, from the point of view of maintainability, to have a single user's manual for both offline and online perusal. One nice way to make this less of an issue would be to rewrite the documentation in a structured format (eg, texinfo or docbook) and add a reader for that format to aptitude. Unfortunately, writing the reader could be a lot of work. > > There's task information in the database, but no mapping to > > "human-readable" names. Would you prefer that tasks be hidden entirely? > > Yeah, if you can't properly support tasks, there's no point in > displaying that section. I guess it depends what you mean by "properly support" -- the packages are all there, sorted into categories; all that's missing is the ability to, eg, display "Development/C++" instead of devel-c++ (or whatever), and the long descriptions of the tasks. > > [ Get menu with ESC or Ctrl-<space> ] > > ESC doesn't work for me, either on the console or in rxvt. Oops, I guess it doesn't. Apparently I was misthinking. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | All generalizations are dangerous. | \------- (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) --------/