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To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: From: Ray Andrews Message-id: <7c81f1c2-6054-4c63-dc5d-154ab8b184f3@eastlink.ca> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 07:56:47 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-language: en-US X-Seq: 26850 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 2021-08-03 11:30 p.m., Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > simply sucks, and It simply does, and it sure is comforting to hear it from an adeptus, the novice tends to think that it's all his fault but sometimes not. "i believe that GNU could have spent a fraction of the effort they put into texinfo on man instead, and we'd all be much happier today." It's more fun to hack code than to document it. I wish we had more cathedral and less bazaar. I remember my first exposure to a Linux GUI, I think it was KDE and you click on 'Help' and some of the pages were entirely blank or had one useless sentence. I wonder if anything at all could possibly be done about this.