On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:08:34 -0600
Bill Gradwohl articulated:
> My original post was only to suggest that instead of more bells and
> whistles, talent should be applied towards the documentation of what
> is already there.
Bill, it is a well known fact that the developers of a product are
usually
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> I find it rather ironical that your rant should amount to a clumsy
> rewording of section 6.1, GNU Manuals, from the GNU Coding Standards:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.html#GNU-Manuals
>
> Followed that link and
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:08:31AM EST, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
[..]
> The man page is written the way Robbie the Robot used to speak in the old
> black and white TV days¹. Short, cryptic and in many cases unintelligible IN
> THE DETAILS. Alternatively, one might snicker that some lawyer wrote it to
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
>> People complain about the readability of code enough already, and as
>> practice shows, things like [[ have been around and nobody uses them
>> anyway (often using just POSIX, but
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> People complain about the readability of code enough already, and as
> practice shows, things like [[ have been around and nobody uses them
> anyway (often using just POSIX, but not even knowing – myself included
> – that POSIX sh has $((…
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:22:36AM +0200, Raphaël Droz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:49:20AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 5/30/11 2:05 PM, Raphaël Droz wrote:
> > > === Rationale:
> > > Let's say you want to complete http URL (which contain ':').
> > >
> > > The completion probably contai
Eric Blake dixit:
>powerful approach. Can we get buy-in from other shell developers to
>support '>;' as an atomic temp-file replacement-on-success idiom, if
Urgh, PLEASE NOT!
People complain about the readability of code enough already, and as
practice shows, things like [[ have been around and
