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Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Subject: Re: Most minimal configuration challenge Content-language: en-US To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <0e8bc96d-17a7-4be2-afab-7a0fd827866f@www.fastmail.com> <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> From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: <20220831092831.GA992100@zira.vinc17.org> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 28019 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 2022-08-31 02:28, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> In short, «zstyle ':foo:bar:*:baz' key v1 v2» translates as "When >> library foo asks for the value of key in a situation of the form >> bar:*:baz, tell it the answer is «v1 v2»". > Perhaps there should be a zsh function that translates a zstyle line > to plain English. :-) > Yup.  Unfortunately we tend to think that experts are the ones who should write documentation, but they are unqualified.  They write sentences that explain what they already know back to themselves.  It's like learning Coptic from a book written in Coptic.  Only people who have just now learned something can explain it in a way that other people who want to learn it can relate to because only the learner has the mind of a learner.  Experts have the mind of experts. So the above no doubt makes perfect sense to the expert who wrote it and already understands it, but is useless to me.  The whole world suffers from this, but especially the computer world.