On 06/22/2021 02:21 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote:
curl https://cht.sh/:cht.sh > ~/bin/cht.sh
chmod +x
st all
> situations. They don't need to contain all the info you'll ever want to
> know, but I usually welcome a few examples in there ;-)
Eventually those extra examples for the man pages could become a local,
automatically installed thing, similiar to the man pages -- there might be a
c
> That's what I get for blindly copying and pasting the "directions" from
> Github. I should've have just told Monnier that the whole shebang
> can be installed locally, which renders inoperative his nitpick about
> not having the Net when he needs to cheat the most (or most often).
The
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 05:54:19 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/22/2021 02:21 AM, Curt wrote:
> > On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > > > On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On
On 2021-06-22, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Unfortunately it outputs light gray text on white background which is
> near impossible for me to read. I Can't figure out how to COERCE MATE
> Terminal to render everything as black on white. That is a showstopper
> for me.
Yeah, maybe you're trying to
On Ma, 22 iun 21, 05:54:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> If ~/bin needs to be created, will logging out then in _guarantee_ it gets
> added to my path? That doesn't sound normal.
There is no guarantee :)
On buster /etc/skel/.profile includes the following snippets
# set PATH so it includes
On 06/22/2021 07:59 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-06-22, Richard Owlett wrote:
I got multiple warning messages including a missing dependency and
warning that my Python was too old. I'm in process of installing
Debian 10.7 on another machine. I'll try again this afternoon or tomorrow.
Thanks.
Too
On 2021-06-22, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I got multiple warning messages including a missing dependency and
> warning that my Python was too old. I'm in process of installing
> Debian 10.7 on another machine. I'll try again this afternoon or tomorrow.
> Thanks.
Too old is surprising because it
On 06/22/2021 06:43 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-06-22, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/22/2021 02:21 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt
On 2021-06-22, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/22/2021 02:21 AM, Curt wrote:
>> On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote:
>>
On 06/22/2021 02:21 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote:
curl https://cht.sh/:cht.sh > ~/bin/cht.sh
On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>> On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> > On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote:
>> > > curl https://cht.sh/:cht.sh > ~/bin/cht.sh
>> > > chmod +x ~/bin/cht.sh
>> > >
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote:
> > > curl https://cht.sh/:cht.sh > ~/bin/cht.sh
> > > chmod +x ~/bin/cht.sh
> > > cht.sh --standalone-install
> >
> > I don't
On Mon 21 Jun 2021 at 15:25:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote:
> > On 2021-06-21, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages.
> > > [...]
> > > > Would it be proper/reasonable/practical/??? to add an entry of
On 06/21/2021 02:36 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-06-21, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages.
[...]
Would it be proper/reasonable/practical/??? to add an entry of the form
https://cht.sh/XXX ?
I think it can make sense for manpages to include a
> Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages.
[...]
> Would it be proper/reasonable/practical/??? to add an entry of the form
> https://cht.sh/XXX ?
I think it can make sense for manpages to include a link to some further
doc in the form of a wiki or some other webpage, but I
On 2021-06-21, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages.
> [...]
>> Would it be proper/reasonable/practical/??? to add an entry of the form
>> https://cht.sh/XXX ?
>
> I think it can make sense for manpages to include a link to some further
> doc in
nformation from the tldr examples collection, like this one:
https://tldr.ostera.io/
The project invites to participate by adding examples to its collection.
Following for years the upcoming discussions about the wish to enhance
man pages by adding examples to it but confronting the situation that
command line options.
Manual pages that focus on library API calls have yet another challenge
for providing examples. The Linux Man Pages Project seems to do a good
job in sections 2 (system calls) and 3 (C library calls) with concise
and useful examples and should probably serve as an example
cus on library API calls have yet another challenge
for providing examples. The Linux Man Pages Project seems to do a good
job in sections 2 (system calls) and 3 (C library calls) with concise
and useful examples and should probably serve as an example for other
authors to follow, IMO.
> Sometim
On 06/21/2021 10:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages.
Sometime back a post mentioned a web page that could return examples for
most(all??) Linux commands. I failed to bookmark it and have not
rediscovered it since.
In another forum I
Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages.
Sometime back a post mentioned a web page that could return examples for
most(all??) Linux commands. I failed to bookmark it and have not
rediscovered it since.
In another forum I was pointed to https://cht.sh/ .
Going to
On 2021-05-31, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> >
>> > '\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences
>> >
>> > curl cht.sh/cp\?T
>> >
>> > curl cheat.sh/:help
>>
>> Thank you. That addresses the immediate *SYMPTOM*.
>>
>> I'll repeat my statement from my original post:
>> > I'll have to reconfigure something
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/30/2021 03:02 PM, Curt wrote:
> > On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > >
> > > I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl
> > > cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/
> > >
> >
> > '\?T' for text only, no ANSI
On 05/30/2021 03:02 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl
cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/
'\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences
curl cht.sh/cp\?T
curl cheat.sh/:help
On 2021-05-29, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I'll have to reconfigure something on my system. Executing 'curl
> cheat.sh/cp' resulted in light grey text on white background ;/
>
'\?T' for text only, no ANSI sequences
curl cht.sh/cp\?T
curl cheat.sh/:help
On 05/29/2021 03:20 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2021, at 21:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
The man page is, putting *mildly*, overwhelming. Is there a recommended
introduction to curl.
curl is a big subject. While it's very useful to people who write scripts etc,
on many platforms,
* On 2021 29 May 15:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 05/29/2021 12:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > This may not be exactly what you're thinking of, but I saw this
> > referenced on Reddit recently:
> >
> > curl cheat.sh/
> >
> > I just did it for 'curl cheat.sh/cp' which gives some
On Sat, 29 May 2021, at 21:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The man page is, putting *mildly*, overwhelming. Is there a recommended
> introduction to curl.
curl is a big subject. While it's very useful to people who write scripts etc,
on many platforms, the whole manual is aimed at programmers
On 05/29/2021 12:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
This may not be exactly what you're thinking of, but I saw this
referenced on Reddit recently:
curl cheat.sh/
I just did it for 'curl cheat.sh/cp' which gives some examples including
from tldr.
- Nate
I'll have to reconfigure something
On 05/29/2021 11:47 AM, Marco Möller wrote:
On 29.05.21 15:41, Richard Owlett wrote:
A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems
with adding examples to all man pages.
Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name.
Unfortunately I didn't bookmark
On 05/29/2021 10:57 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 08:41:02AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with
adding examples to all man pages.
Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name
This may not be exactly what you're thinking of, but I saw this
referenced on Reddit recently:
curl cheat.sh/
I just did it for 'curl cheat.sh/cp' which gives some examples including
from tldr.
- Nate
--
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds. The
On 29.05.21 15:41, Richard Owlett wrote:
A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with
adding examples to all man pages.
Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name.
Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts to do a web search
failed
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 08:41:02AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with
> adding examples to all man pages.
>
> Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name.
> Unfortunately I didn't boo
A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with
adding examples to all man pages.
Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name.
Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts to do a web search
failed.
Does anyone recall the URL?
TIA
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