* [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
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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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