On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 04:14:01PM +0000, Iremonger, Bernard wrote: > Hi John, > <snip> > > > 2015-12-09 14:50, Mcnamara, John: > > > Also, as a general note, not just to this document/patch. > > > > > > I don't think the "user at target:~$" prefixes used in some DPDK Doc > > > commandlines is useful. > > > > > > It prevents a straight copy and paste for testing, it makes the > > > literal block lines longer than they should be, it isn't used > > > consistently everywhere, it is visually distracting (in some cases it > > > is longer than the command being shown), and it isn't always correct > > > (I presume in the above case of "user at target" you would need run the > > > application as sudo if you are a non root user). > > > > > > Any objections to removing these as documents are updated? > > > > Generally speaking, +1 to remove extra bytes :) > > I will remove the "user at target:~$" prefixes in this document.
I'd personally suggest to keep the "$ " prefix, or "# " if it needs root privilege. Which is a convention to paste commands. --yliu