On 3 July 2013 21:24, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Are the videos to be in addition to or instead of full documentation > in the '?' functions?
Ha! We should make "?" download the video off youtube and then pipe it through "mplayer -vo aa" to show it in ASCII right there in the console! Butsrsly, Hut, if you want to do it the go ahead, but I've never really been a video fan. I know I'm not exactly your target audience but if your demographic is just *newer versions of me* then it's likely not that useful. If you go ahead, I recommend using "script" and "scriptreplay" from "util-linux" (you might have it already). That way it would actually be sane to do the above advice -- have little videos with every command that play directly in the shell. Of course, they shouldn't replace the normal help pages. Something like ":videohelp" for index of videos, ":videohelp <command>" for videohelp for specific commands. With (esp. lzma) compression the videos are really quite small.
