Re: Great SWT Program

In article <1194128629.961942.216620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

That would be a more convincing argument if the combination "cd"
were more common in English. I can't be bothered to find out how
many words contain it, or how common they are. "anecdote" comes
immediately to mind, but it seems unlikely to occur in technical
documentation. <shrug>

Slow slogging awaits.

Well, no. Six keystrokes total: /cd<enter>, followed by "n" twice
to repeat the search, and I was there.

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.

"Whatever".

I would never claim that Unix is without flaws. But I find
its flaws less infuriating than those of Windows. Your mileage
obviously varies.

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B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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