From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from icebubble.org ([174.136.103.210]) by ewsd; Mon Aug 3 15:12:45 EDT 2020 Received: from petunia by icebubble.org with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1k2fvB-0005jv-1Z for 9front@9front.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:14:53 +0000 Received: from rusat by cmarib.ramside with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1k2fXi-0007XZ-9P for 9front@9front.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:50:38 +0000 From: magma698hfsp273p9f@icebubble.org To: 9front@9front.org Subject: Re: [9front] The 9 Documentation Project References: <86tuxoq3bo.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <20200730191522.GA52500@wopr> <21d509a3-0f9f-4f08-bdf6-1a2c73ccea07@www.fastmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:50:38 +0000 In-Reply-To: <21d509a3-0f9f-4f08-bdf6-1a2c73ccea07@www.fastmail.com> (Ethan Gardener's message of "Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:59:01 +0100") Message-ID: <86pn877edd.fsf@cmarib.ramside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: storage YAML over SOAP GPU interface STM DOM framework "Ethan Gardener" writes: > you know, the above point may be directly applicable to using scms > with their arcane things to remember on top of the code you're > writing. however, it's definitely directly applicable to coming up > with analysis scripts for dump or wikifs. (despite plan 9's lovely > unified regexps.) which is the lesser evil? don't ask me, i'm trying > to develop something better than either. :} Why would you object to anyone doing a text search on the docs? That seems like it would be a very convenient benefit of having text-based documentation in a unified tree. Plan 9's intentional choice to use text-based mechanisms no doubt anticipated synergies such as this. I don't know about you, but I regularly search my mailbox files using grep. That's one of the reasons why I chose a MUA which stores messages in plain text. They're more useful, that way.