Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:14:48
Message-Id: 20150130081441.GA7813@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command by Zac Medico
1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > > - print("Use " + colorize("GOOD", "eselect news") + " to read news items.")
3 > > + print("Use " + colorize("GOOD", "eselect news read new") + " to read new items.")
4 >
5 > I guess that's fine, but I have to wonder how many people are really
6 > that lazy. To me, it actually seems like more effort to highlight the
7 > span of characters with the mouse than it does to type them out.
8
9 People are. I do recall some time ago someone asked me what the full
10 command was and why it wasnt just printed like the @preserved-rebuild
11 message.
12 >
13 > Also, when the work "read" appears twice on a short line like that, it
14 > gives a wordy/redundant feeling.
15
16 Perhaps better would be "'eselect news read' to view new items"? ie.
17 view instead of the second read.
18
19 -- Jason

Replies