Hello! I'm working with Siteshwar on these shell enhancements. At the cost of
straying
off-topic, I hope I can clarify our intent, and convince you that this is a
worthwhile
effort.
Ingo Schwarze wrote on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:57:29 +0100:
> Do not bloat the shell.
This is key to our philosophy.
Hi,
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> There is no need to choose stupid projects for learning; actually, you
> not only *produce* less, you also *learn* less in a project that is
> bound for failure right from the start.
It may be learning less but reaching a dead end and looking back and
learning from it,
Hi,
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:16:01PM +:
> Clarke Echols wrote:
>> I agree with Ingo. Unix man pages are supposed to have a well-defined
>> sequence and format.
> (Many, the majority?, don't comply on common Linux systems,
> unfortunately.)
Right, which is exactly why
On 22-Jan-2012 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> This is a misguided, terrible idea in so many ways.
>
> Clarke Echols wrote:
>> I agree with Ingo. Unix man pages are supposed to have a
>> well-defined sequence and format.
>
> (Many, the majority?, don't comply on common Linu
Hi,
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> This is a misguided, terrible idea in so many ways.
Clarke Echols wrote:
> I agree with Ingo. Unix man pages are supposed to have a well-defined
> sequence and format.
(Many, the majority?, don't comply on common Linux systems,
unfortunately.)
Neither of you are allo
On 01/22/2012 08:57 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Hi,
Siteshwar Vashisht wrote on Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:29:23PM +0530:
I am working on a shell, and the idea is to show suggestions for
command line options on pressing tab. So let's say on pressing
"ls", I will get all the command line options for
Hi,
Siteshwar Vashisht wrote on Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:29:23PM +0530:
> I am working on a shell, and the idea is to show suggestions for
> command line options on pressing tab. So let's say on pressing
> "ls", I will get all the command line options for ls
> command. Now a good idea is to fetch
Hi,
No, I am in no way interested in X. I am working on a shell, and the idea
is to show suggestions for command line options on pressing tab. So let's
say on pressing "ls", I will get all the command line options for ls
command. Now a good idea is to fetch these options from manual pages.
@Larry
Hi Siteshwar,
> No, I am in no way interested in X. I am working on a shell, and the
> idea is to show suggestions for command line options on pressing tab.
> So let's say on pressing "ls", I will get all the command line
> options for ls command. Now a good idea is to fetch these options from
> m
On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
> Is there any option in groff to parse only a specifiec section of man page
> ? For e.g. when I say
>
> groff -X -P -resolution -P100 -man passwd
>
> It parses and shows me the whole page. What if I want to parse only OPTIONS
> section ?
Hi,
Philip Guenther pointed out to me that the acronym "XBD" stands for
"X/Open Base Definitions", not "X/Open System Interface Definitions",
see for example:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/
Hence, i propose the following patch to mdoc(7).
If you agree with this, i will update
Hi Siteshwar,
> What if I want to parse only OPTIONS section ? I am looking for
> something like :-
>
> groff -X -P -resolution -P100 -man -parse-section "OPTIONS" passwd
Can you tell us why you want to do this? Is it only -X output you're
interested in, for example.
Cheers, Ralph.
Follow-up to my previous reply:
On 22-Jan-2012 Ted Harding wrote:
> On 22-Jan-2012 Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any option in groff to parse only a specifiec
>> section of man page? For e.g. when I say
>>
>> groff -X -P -resolution -P100 -man passwd
>>
>> It parses and shows me t
On 22-Jan-2012 Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any option in groff to parse only a specifiec
> section of man page? For e.g. when I say
>
> groff -X -P -resolution -P100 -man passwd
>
> It parses and shows me the whole page. What if I want to
> parse only OPTIONS section ? I am looking
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