On 2022-09-02 03:36, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Ironically this sentence would be the perfect start to some doc about zstyle that was actually helpful:
There's no easy way to explain zstyle in a sentence since it has so many moving parts (keys, values, contexts, context patterns).
... start off by letting the reader know that zstyle is the most complex thing in the universe and even John von Neumann wouldn't get it right away.
But sometimes what you want is a fish. That's the perfect analogy tho. Sometimes I want a fishing rod, sometimes I want a fish. When it comes to documentation, they3. Readers (including lurkers) would get a fishing rod rather than a fish.
are very different things.