On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 07:35 +0530, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" wrote: > Murray McAllister wrote: > > > The Red Hat documentation team recently had a discussion about using > > prompts (such as "$" and "#") in command examples. > > If this is based on the feedback that a lot of users copy-paste the > commands into their shells and receive an error stating that the prompt > shouldn't be in, then it makes sense to remove the prompt and add > comments/narration. > > However, this does bring out a separate point altogether - aren't users > expected to *not* do copy-paste and type in the commands (for better > learning etc etc) ? :) We actually discussed the value of leaving the root # in use as a filter against people who shouldn't be doing commands as root. :) - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, Community Gardener Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41
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