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Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.7.0 Subject: Re: Most minimal configuration challenge Content-language: en-US To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <5141de6b-dbee-4d4b-3b74-d95a671fa04e@luffy.cx> <33d0bd1a-4da7-416d-a92a-04ceb07d1107@www.fastmail.com> <1c9b6072-26e7-467e-b8cc-7d44f15eaf1b@www.fastmail.com> <9116efd4-7c88-4ea3-9601-9c522236fee7@www.fastmail.com> <20220831092831.GA992100@zira.vinc17.org> <2a3b5ac0-f4f8-4c14-835a-c3d31db6d4fb@www.fastmail.com> <20220902103648.GM5920@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: <20220902103648.GM5920@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 28036 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: 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.