Re: [Fish-users] Unreadable!

2013-05-12 Thread Chris Wright
2013/5/12 Bryan Kilgallin > Hi Chris: > > Thanks for writing. > > > What is your actual complaint? >> > > Here is a link to a document plain English check-list. > http://www.plainlanguage.gov/**howto/quickreference/**checklist.cfm

Re: [Fish-users] Unreadable!

2013-05-12 Thread Chris Wright
What is your actual complaint? "It has a high reading level" is true, but is the problem polysyllabic terminology that you don't understand? Is it sentence structure that takes you more time to parse than you think appropriate? Do you read it and parse it and then have trouble understanding how it

Re: [Fish-users] Unreadable!

2013-05-12 Thread Martin Bähr
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:04:27PM +1000, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > "By pressing Alt-up and Alt-down, a history search is also performed, > but instead of searching for a complete commandline, each commandline is > tokenized into separate elements just like it would be before execution, > and eac

[Fish-users] Unreadable!

2013-05-12 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
"By pressing Alt-up and Alt-down, a history search is also performed, but instead of searching for a complete commandline, each commandline is tokenized into separate elements just like it would be before execution, and each such token is matched against the token under the cursor when the sear

[Fish-users] Undefined term

2013-05-12 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
"After pasting, use Meta-Y to rotate to the previous kill." http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/index.html#editor My keyboard does not have a "Meta" key. -- www.netspeed.com.au/bryan/ -- Learn Graph Databases -

Re: [Fish-users] Fish user documentation readability

2013-05-12 Thread Elias Assmann
On 05/10/2013 12:23 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > Take the following quote as an example. I parsed it through a > readability checker. > http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp > That gave a Gunning Fog Index of 14, and a Flesch Reading Ease of 38. > The following URL

Re: [Fish-users] Fish user documentation readability

2013-05-12 Thread ridiculous_fish
Hi Bryan, I've opened issue https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/740 to track simplifying the language used. Thanks for taking the time to report this. _fish On May 10, 2013, at 3:23 AM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > Take the following quote as an example. I parsed it through a > reada

Re: [Fish-users] Fish user documentation

2013-05-12 Thread ridiculous_fish
Fixed with commit 4758387 . Thanks for reporting this. _fish On May 6, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > In the following sentence, file names are mismatched. > > "An example of a file redirection is echo hello >output.txt, which > directs the output of the echo command to the file