From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 21:04:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110518210408.4b4015fd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105182103.47416.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 18 May 2011 21:03:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > They both have a steep initial learning curve, which leads to their
> > adoption being put off. I put awk in the same category as screen, one
> > of those programs that you hear people going on about for years, but
> > always manage to put off trying them. Once you do try them, you use
> > them for everything but slicing bread.
> Add bash to that list.
>
> Have you read the full man page for the bloody thing?
It's better than the zsh man page, which is split into several pages.
That sounds like a good idea, and it would have been if there had been
some sort of index so you knew which page to look on.
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Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 46: Found missing
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-16 23:10 [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D Felix Miata
2011-05-16 23:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-17 0:36 ` Willie Wong
2011-05-17 0:38 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-17 7:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-17 10:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-17 13:10 ` Juan Diego Tascón
2011-05-17 13:36 ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-17 13:51 ` Juan Diego Tascón
2011-05-17 14:34 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-17 17:38 ` Stroller
2011-05-18 10:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-18 19:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-18 20:04 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-05-18 20:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-18 20:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-19 19:01 ` Walter Dnes
2011-05-17 14:30 ` David Haller
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