From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Most minimal configuration challenge
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 07:26:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <789b8b92-ef70-940f-b24a-4edb27a59bd7@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220902103648.GM5920@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>
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.
>
> 3. Readers (including lurkers) would get a fishing rod rather than a fish.
>
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, they
are very different things.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-02 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-27 4:30 Felipe Contreras
2022-08-27 16:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-27 19:32 ` Vincent Bernat
2022-08-27 20:04 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-08-27 23:53 ` Ray Andrews
2022-08-28 7:53 ` zzapper
2022-08-28 10:30 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-28 13:59 ` Ray Andrews
2022-08-28 18:29 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-31 9:28 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-08-31 14:17 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-01 21:52 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 1:41 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-09-02 1:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-09-02 1:49 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 5:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-09-02 7:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 10:36 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 14:26 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2022-09-04 7:13 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-04 16:30 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-02 10:39 ` [PATCH] zstyle: Correct and expand docs (was: Re: Most minimal configuration challenge) Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 15:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-09-04 6:51 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 13:55 ` Most minimal configuration challenge Ray Andrews
2022-09-04 7:21 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-04 16:34 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-02 13:32 ` Ray Andrews
2022-09-04 7:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 9:53 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 9:26 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-02 14:44 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-09-04 6:42 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-09-05 9:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-09-12 8:59 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-08-28 18:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-08-28 19:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-08-28 19:35 ` Ray Andrews
2022-08-28 18:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-09-02 1:36 ` Vincent Lefevre
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