On Sun, 7 Sep 2014, Royce Williams wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
Based on feedback from -arch, now there is a version that uses only harmless,
inoffensive ASCII whitespace to delimit the commands:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.whitespace
Not to bikeshed overmuch, but such usage of extra whitespace seems
odd/rare, and harms readability.
If the intent is to help new users get oriented, it doesn't serve the
intended purpose, IMO.
Better to offset with quotes or something:
Other questions or problems can be emailed to the questi...@freebsd.org
mailing list. Please include the output of "uname -a" and any relevant
error messages. The "man man" command gives an introduction to manual
pages, and hier(7) describes the FreeBSD directory layout.
This is pretty much what we have now:
% `uname -a'
Unmatched `.
% "man man"
man man: Command not found.
The goal is to give a new user literal commands that do not need
interpretation. I was surprised at how subtly the double spaces showed
that the command was separate from the rest of the text. It's not
ideal, but there is a serious lack of options in plain ASCII.
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