discuss: GNU Linux Command Line Tools Summary Ready for inclusion
Subject:
Re: GNU Linux Command Line Tools Summary Ready for inclusion
From:
Gareth Anderson ####@####.####
Date:
21 Feb 2005 06:53:57 -0000
Message-Id: <95da22880502202253155a6c4d@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
> I just now reviewed the part on the vi and emacs editor. It fails. vim
> is not very difficult to learn if one learns only a small number of
> commands.
I will re-word it if I feel it is necessary (undecided for now).
>You say to search for other text editors on the Internet and
> provide a link to sourceforge. I used the link to sourceforge and
> searched for "text editors". Nothing found. "vulnerable" should be
> "venerable".
I will remove those links then.
I believe I meant vulnerable but I could use a better word.
> Then I looks at "xargs". It was terrible. Your explanation is wrong and
> and the example with grep doesn't do what you claim. To do what you
> claim it does, one doesn't need to use xargs. Just type ls | grep work.
> It's not hard to understand xargs but you claim otherwise and fail to
> explain what xargs does.
I think I will remove xargs, for some reason I decided to leave it before.
> Now don't just fix the 1% I've sampled. Fix the other 99% too. You
> need to test out all examples to see it they work right. You need to
> read the man pages and search the Internet to see if you've got it
> right. I don't think you've done this. Sorry to have to be so blunt
> about it but I want to see good quality docs in LDP.
I will not dignify those comments with a reply.
I'll leave the decision upto the other 99% of people who make up the TLDP.
Later,
Gareth
