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Re: zsh.texi
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1348
- From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Clive Messer <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: zsh.texi
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:30:29 -0700
- Cc: Mark Borges <mdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Clive Messer <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Re: zsh.texi" (Jun 13, 2:49pm)
- References: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960613141925.12198C-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: schaefer@xxxxxxx
On Jun 13, 2:49pm, Clive Messer wrote:
} Subject: Re: zsh.texi
}
} > -C controls completion when there is no current command, in other words
} > when the command word itself is being completed. Without this command,
}
} This is a direct copy of zshcompctl.man.
} Perhaps it needs to be clarified in the man page.
}
} > If the + flag is alone and followed immediately by the command list, the
}
} Again, this is a direct copy of the man page.
}
} > As a general remark, this sort of documentation should avoid talking
} > about how a given operation is accomplished (e.g., above, dump the "by
} > deleting the command from the list ... handled specially") and just
} > state what the end result is. Only discuss how something works if
} > that's important for using the feature correctly; and even then, *first*
} > concisely describe the end result, and *then* elaborate how it comes to
} > pass.
}
} I did not set out to re-write the man pages, just port them to texinfo.
Aha. I haven't read through all the new man pages. Well, then, whoever
is maintaining the manual pages should consider the above as commentary
on those, and it should get fixed in *both* places. ;->
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