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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
8:56 AM
@StephenHarris Mr. Garrett is always entertaining.
> I contacted the vendor and informed them of these problems - they told me that there were no problems and I should feel safe using the device.
He should visit India. He could probably get a book out of it.
People in India telling you everything is fine while WWIII is going on is so common it's practically a trope.
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
9:14 AM
I think it's man pages, not man-pages. Anyone?
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A: Why don't man pages have sample commands?

Baard KopperudThat depends on the man-pages... Traditionally, they have included a section with examples - but for some reason that is usually missing from the man-pages under Linux (and I assume other using GNU-commands - which are most these days). On Solaris on the other hand, almost every man-page include ...

The author obviously likes hyphens.
@StephenHarris That interview of yours mentions roff. Do you use it any more? Do you use LaTeX at all?
 
 
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Pandya
Pandya
11:41 AM
/se/faq:

 How does SE work?

Discussion regarding getting an understanding & familiarity wi...
 
 
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derobert
derobert
4:55 PM
@FaheemMitha it's short for manual pages, so yeah... no hyphen.
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@derobert Ok. Can I be bothered to edit?
Is there some culture that particularly likes hyphens? Clearly the author's native language is not English.
 
derobert
derobert
@FaheemMitha depends on whether you have your web browser hooked up to sed, I imagine.
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@derobert I don't think that's possible.
 
derobert
derobert
I have mine hooked up to gVim... so who knows?
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@derobert You do?
 
derobert
derobert
5:00 PM
yep, very convenient for editing all kinds of text.
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
I think this guy must have read something somewhere saying that more hyphens were better. It's a weird stylistic quirk.
 
derobert
derobert
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@derobert Oh, I was using one of those things, but with emacs.
Though it wasn't terribly reliable. And I seem to have lost it at some point.
 
derobert
derobert
It's All Text has worked fine for me for years.
There isn't one for Chrome AFAIK because the security model doesn't permit it
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@derobert The firefox plugin?
 
derobert
derobert
5:04 PM
yeah
 
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
I think I was using Edit with Emacs.
 

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