Re: Great SWT Program

On Nov 1, 5:27 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Because you, like anyone else who's tried and actually stuck with
these tools, are a memorization savant to at least some extent, while
I, and most of the rest of the planet's population, am not.

Huh? Let's take an example -- finding information about the "cd"
(change directory) command. "man cd" brings up the man page for
bash, since cd is a shell built-in rather than a separate command.
I certainly don't have the whole man page memorized -- if I did,
I wouldn't need to consult it, would I? -- so to me the sensible
way to find information about "cd" is to search for it

And hit every occurrence of a C next to a D in the entire document.
Slow slogging awaits. Me, I prefer proper context help where the
documentation for "cd" would be on a page by itself that you could be
linked directly to.

and repeat
the search as needed. Scrolling through the whole document doesn't
strike me as easier, and flicking one's mouse to get to the right
position -- seems to me that *that* would require memorization,
in the sense of knowing or being able to guess the approximate
position of the desired information.

In this case, scrolling won't work. You're not familiar with the
document (if you are, i.e. know approximately what's where, scrolling
works well). So you need to page-down and skim, or do a search and
given the very short so very broad search query you'll be hitting F3
or whatever nearly as often as you'd be hitting page down to reach it
that way. :P


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