Re: Format for giving examples of commands

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On Sunday 17 June 2012, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think people's opinions will split on this. When the above change
> was made, Karanbir Singh noted on IRC:

I guess I'll have to start following IRC.

> I tend to agree that we want to be sure users do not just copy the
> while thing in one shot.

The main problem with copy and paste, I think, is that usually a 
carriage return is automatically added at the end, and so the command is 
immediately executed. Forcing users to copy and paste individual bits 
does nothing to prevent this.

Yves

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille <yan@xxxxxxxx>
"La Esperanta Civito ne rifuzas anticipe la kunlaboron de erarintoj, se
ili konscias pri sia eraro." -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 473.
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