Quoth Janne Snabb on Thursday, 22 July 2010: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Jerry wrote: > > >Then again, perhaps we should just remove the handbook all together and > >let everyone figure it out for themselves. No dumbing down at all > >required. We certainly would not want to over do the 'friendly' > >concept. I suppose some of use, you obviously, knew it all when you > >started out. > > <sarcasm> > > I think there should be also a comment in addition to the backticks > issue that one should press ENTER key after they have successfully > entered all the required characters. This way we can teach all the > UNIX basics in one single document "The Porters Handbook" and will > have a tremendous success attracting people to learn UNIX by > submitting broken ports and asking basic questions on this mailing > list. > > </sarcasm> > > PS. Flame me if you like. > There are places to teach basic shell scripting, but the Porter's Handbook is not one of them, IMHO. Perhaps a "(note the backticks)" is appropriate for a web-based document because of potential font mangling, but I'd stick with the version of the command that's most universally applicable rather than the most readable.
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