Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:03:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I see you need to know a lot of keys. I think that is non-intuitive; > a full screen interface should have pulldown menus (perhaps with > shortcuts), a command line interface has switches. Well, actually pull down menus are

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With those two keys you usually will type 'u' and then 'f' in aptitude to >reset it to its default working mode. In that mode you have a list of: > >If you have a packe selected, you will get information about it in the >s

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 29-Mar-00, 09:00 (CST), Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I'm also a first-time aptitude user) > > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (Remark: I think I would find the overloading of the '-' key confusing. > > Please consider using a different key for hold operati

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
(I'm also a first-time aptitude user) Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Remark: I think I would find the overloading of the '-' key confusing. > Please consider using a different key for hold operations. 'h' seems > intuitive but might be pressed by novices as an attempt to get hel

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:33:43AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > (c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany > > Please don't assert copyright without including a license. Actually there is no difference if the line is present or not, as long as i dont claim otherwise it is my intelectual p

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
Here's my input. It is written from the perspective of someone who has never even run aptitude -- but that should be okay, since that is your target audience. :) On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:32:39AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > aptitude > (c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany Please don