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Zac Medico posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:37:30 -0800 as excerpted: |
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> On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>> Also, when the work "read" appears twice on a short line like that, it |
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>>> gives a wordy/redundant feeling. |
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>> Perhaps better would be "'eselect news read' to view new items"? ie. |
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>> view instead of the second read. |
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> Yeah, that's much better. |
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"View" works, or I was going to suggest "see", which I'm still partial to |
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over "view": |
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'eselect news read' to see news items. |
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(And FWIW, select/paste vs. type, depends on my mood and the pointing |
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device I'm using. I used to select/paste quite a bit with a trackball, |
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depending on mood, but I'm using a touchpad without physical buttons as |
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my primary pointing device now, and it's more trouble there, so I'd type |
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it as long as the command is short or can be tab-completed, and only |
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select/paste for long ones or those with arbitrary and hard to remember |
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options, possibly even switching pointing devices to do it if I'm not |
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running X and thus don't have the 20-gesture-"button" programmed |
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flexibility of a well configured xf86-input-mtrack. An text-console |
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evdev-based mtrack driver to parallel the X driver would sure be nice!) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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