On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:27:48PM -0400, Ervin Hearn III wrote: > > > Please don't do this yet, since dselect is still more self-documenting, > > > and therefore easier for new people to use. :-P > > Easier for new people to use?!? > > /me rolls off chair laughing. > > I sincerely hope the ":-P" means you are using sarcasm. > Quite seriously, I prefer using dselect... the main complaint > I've heard from new users is being able to search for a specific > package quickly. As soon as I teach them about / for find and > \ for find again, they generally find it just as useful as I do.
I'm also one of dselect haters. I find it difficult to learn in the way vi is: the keystrokes are so surprising and esoteric that I'm having hard time even reading the help about those keystrokes. For me, vi was worth learning; dselect most definitely was not. Panu Kalliokoski