Florian Philipp wrote:
Sure thing. However, it is much faster to type `echo foo> bar` than writing "Open your favorite file editor and enter 'foo' into 'bar'." Being concise is often the better approach when you want to show a solution to the problem at hand instead of educating the reader. Everyone who is able to install Gentoo should be able to understand the shell line and use whatever approach he wants to achieve the same result and if he is satisfied with the given line, he has a copy-and-paste solution at hand (my colleagues call this "service to the reader"). Regards, Florian Philipp
Yep, one could write to open a file with nano or vi. If the user knows what he/she is doing, opening it with kwrite would work just as good, unless the GUI is broken. I often get help from folks who say to edit a file one way but I may do something with a different tool than they use. Prime example being vi compared to nano. Does the same thing but a different tool. It's a matter of preferences is all. I use nano but if someone writes to use vi, I know how to change the command to work with nano.
The biggest thing is, if a problem can't be solved on this list, it's a BIG problem or a nifty new feature. lol
Dale :-) :-)
