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* [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command
  @ 2015-01-30  9:58 99%       ` Duncan
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From: Duncan @ 2015-01-30  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-portage-dev; +Cc: gentoo-dev

Zac Medico posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:37:30 -0800 as excerpted:

> On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
>>> Also, when the work "read" appears twice on a short line like that, it
>>> gives a wordy/redundant feeling.
>> 
>> Perhaps better would be "'eselect news read' to view new items"? ie.
>> view instead of the second read.
> 
> Yeah, that's much better.

"View" works, or I was going to suggest "see", which I'm still partial to 
over "view":

'eselect news read' to see news items.

(And FWIW, select/paste vs. type, depends on my mood and the pointing 
device I'm using.  I used to select/paste quite a bit with a trackball, 
depending on mood, but I'm using a touchpad without physical buttons as 
my primary pointing device now, and it's more trouble there, so I'd type 
it as long as the command is short or can be tab-completed, and only 
select/paste for long ones or those with arbitrary and hard to remember 
options, possibly even switching pointing devices to do it if I'm not 
running X and thus don't have the 20-gesture-"button" programmed 
flexibility of a well configured xf86-input-mtrack.  An text-console 
evdev-based mtrack driver to parallel the X driver would sure be nice!)

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