Robert Elz wrote in
<8853.1660590...@jacaranda.noi.kre.to>:
| Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:45:59 -0400
| From: Jan Schaumann <jscha...@netmeister.org>
| Message-ID: <20220815144559.go11...@netmeister.org>
|
|| I think it's short-sighted and unfair to equate lack
|| of experience with idiocy.
|
|Then why did you jump to that conclusion? That is neither
|what I said, nor what I meant.
|
|There is no problem with inexperienced users, who are capable
|enough to know they are inexperienced (which of itself says
|very little) and who are willing to learn, and to recognise
|that learning means work.
|
|The best way for such users to become experienced, is by doing
|things, and that should start with the small things, of course,
|for which solutions can fairly easily be discovered.
|
|So, for example if the shell were to not start with line editing
|enabled (to borrow from one of the recent issues) a moron user
|with complain about how useless it is, and moan a lot, and that's
|about it. A user who is merely inexperienced will wonder why
|that is, and perhaps decide to have a look in the documentation for
|the shell, which will tell them that "set -E" (or set -o emacs) or
|set -V (or set -o vi) will enable it. Then they'd try that, and
|discover that it does work. Next would be how to make that happen
|automatically, so back to the man page to learn about the startup
|scripts that the shell runs.
And the golden path is enabling.
Yeah, do not make turtle soup, let the turtles do smalltalk.
I just did
--- a/home/.shrc
+++ b/home/.shrc
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ eval "___isinc=\$___SHRC$$"
shopt -s expand_aliases
elif [ "${OSTYPE}" = netbsd ]; then
set -o cdprint -o emacs -o tabcomplete
+ (set -o promptcmds) >/dev/null 2>&1 && set -o promptcmds
fi
export HISTSIZE HISTFILE
last saturday after creating my NetBSD 9.3 VM, because i was given
a hand. (Iirc: again, and again, and again...-)
P.S.: i want to add i was sitting and saying your first two
sentences this afternoon (in German).
Thanks, and Ciao from Germany. (That unfortunately sends lots of
military planes to your home country.)
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
