From: zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Using history / fc for case-insensitive pattern matching
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:07:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40c24ebc-56c0-a50c-eb8f-28c57cb80c04@rayninfo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1117602475.939955.1645525125795@mail2.virginmedia.com>
On 22/02/2022 10:18, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>> To answer my own question: with fc any number range eg first last
>> should/must be the last
> Would this be a little clearer? History (pun intended) shows that
> making the docs more verbose doesn't mean people necessarily find
> them clearer, but I think they are particularly terse at this point.
>
> pws
Peter you made me laugh out loud when you used the word 'terse'
I often find I understand documentation AFTER I have actually found out
how to do something LOL (especially assembling flat-pack furniture).
But as you say there is trade-off between verbosity which people may not
read and simplicity.
In this case however had I really invested in understanding the existing
fc man page I would spared myself considerable grief.
Isn't there an adage something like '6 hours of coding and testing saves
1 hour of studying the documentation'?
zzapper
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-22 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-21 17:43 Zach Riggle
2022-02-21 21:01 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-02-22 9:09 ` zzapper
2022-02-22 9:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-02-22 9:39 ` zzapper
2022-02-22 9:47 ` zzapper
2022-02-22 10:18 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-02-22 13:07 ` zzapper [this message]
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