On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>>
>> Dale posted on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:49:55 -0600 as excerpted:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Sometimes the man page only serves to confuse me more. Now after I get
>>> the command, I get it. I ran into the same thing with xset a bit ago. I
>>> couldn't figure out how to get it to accept what I wanted so I searched
>>> around until I found some examples. After I saw the examples, it made
>>> sense. xset dpms 3600 3600 3600 all on one line. Who'd have thunk it?
>>>
>>
>> Quote from the manpage:
>>
>> use.mask
>> [snip description]
>>
>> Format:
>> - comments begin with # (no inline comments)
>> - one USE flag per line
>>
>> end quote.
>>
>> You find "one USE flag per line" confusing?<shrug> =:^)
>>
>> BTW, depending on your chosen pager app, the / key can often be used to
>> invoke a search. I believe it works that way with the default less, and
>> it definitely works that way with the "most" command that I use as my
>> pager, after seeing someone describe how much better than less it was
>> (color for emphasis, etc). "most" is its own emergable package. You can
>> then set it as your default pager by putting this in your .bashrc or the
>> like:
>>
>> export PAGER=most
>>
>> So all I did is "man portage", then /use.mask, then hit "n" a few times to
>> go to the next "hit" for that search. After using that to search and find
>> the appropriate part of the manpage, the format section was easily
>> spotted, containing just the answer to your question. =:^)
>>
>> (BTW, I expect you know this from the various threads we've both been
>> involved in on the kde lists, but other readers might not. I wasn't
>> trying to be rude, simply give you a playful nudge in the right
>> direction. I hope it was taken in that spirit. =:^)
>>
>>
>
> When I looked using Konsole, I didn't see that part. I used Konqueror and
> found it with the search function. I did find another section so I may have
> been reading the wrong thing.
>
> I took the nudge the way it was intended. I learned a long time ago to try
> to see things in a positive light until sure it is not intended that way.
> Trying to put things into text is not easy. Heck, if we were face to face
> talking it is hard enough. ;-) It just seems that seeing examples is the
> best way for me to learn.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
>
Dale, I am with you on examples and the manpages.
