Dave Howorth wrote: > <snip the historical post> > [the paragraph] which begins "Each value must be provided ..." is consistent > with what > you say. So now you know what you were looking for, it's there! > > I agree that it doesn't tell you what you don't need to do, but then it > doesn't say that you don't need to add "waa-hey" at the end of every > line either :) > > Hmm, "waa-hey" indeed. That was funny, btw. I got a real good chuckle. So I'm sitting here thinking about documentation in general and the difficulties that I have with deciphering man pages and syntax. I see that I'm told that each value must be provided, and that's great and all, but I still think I've missed the documentation about HOW to provide each value. I do so try to RTFM before asking stupid questions and so I try to learn better how (and where) to RTFM.
Speaking of the manual... should "Options whose names with an initial capital (ex: Foo) " read "Options whose names begin with an initial capital (ex: Foo)" or maybe "Options with names that begin with an initial capital letter (ex: Foo) " ?? > Perhaps there should be a line that explicitly says there are no > escape/quoting mechanisms. Is that a function of the dirvish scripts then -- as opposed to an underlying utility such as rsync ? > I suppose it also means dirvish can't deal > with filenames that begin or end with a space or that contain an > embedded newline or any other fun things one might choose to do. > Oh, well. I'll have to stop using dirvish immediately!!! all my filenames begin with either spaces or dashes, and yours should too! -- Richard _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
