On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:15:59 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:15:13AM -0500, Bob Heckel wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:20:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Bob Heckel wrote: > >> >Here are preliminary setup.hint's > >> > > >> >@ w3m > >> > >> Can you explain what in the documentation suggested to you that you > >> needed to use this "@ w3m" tag? I have read the setup.html web page > >> repeatedly and it seems really clear to me that it isn't required but > >> you are at least the third person who has recently submitted a > >> setup.hint with this. > >> > >> I'd like to correct the documentation so that I don't have to keep > >> making this observation over and over again. > > > >The template's use of italics (http://cygwin.com/setup.html#setup.hint) > >confused me. I knew I had to enter "some text" and guessed that > >because "package" was italicized too, I needed to enter that. Plus, as > >Igor said (thanks for the helpful comments, Igor), I needed a way to > >distinguish w3m and gc hints. > > You were taking something as a template which was just a list of all of > potential fields available in setup.hint. I think you needed to read > the surrounding text.
Yes, after re-reading the page, I think, in my haste to get a sample posted, I skipped over a few parts and misinterpreted that section's intent. I also missed the "@" issue discussed in a few recent posts; I should have subscribed to this list a bit longer before posting.
