Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 07:41:39AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> I appreciate attempts to improve our documentation, and hope that you >> will continue to do so. I am far from convinced, though, that this >> change clears the bar for mainline inclusion. > > I'd ask that you reconsider. Looking at patch 2, I prefer what is > written there. I don't think it adds cognitive load when reading the > plain docs. I find the "copy and paste from html" argument not very > convincing, but I do like "copy and paste from rst", which this enables. Do you really think that the benefit from that justifies adding a build dependency and breaking everybody's docs build until they install it? I rather suspect I would hear back from people who feel otherwise if I did that... > I also have a certain fond memory of how the plan9 people set up 'rc' > (their shell) so that ";" was both an empty statement, and the default > prompt. So you could copy-paste lines starting with the ; prompt and > they'd work. It's a small usabillity improvement, but it is there, > and wow is it annoying when you don't have it any more. Ah, OK, so what we really need is a bash patch :) Thanks, jon
