Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@×××.de>
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:56:25
Message-Id: 21707.14623.680298.999295@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command by Zac Medico
1 >>>>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Zac Medico wrote:
2
3 >> - print("Use " + colorize("GOOD", "eselect news") + " to read news items.")
4 >> + print("Use " + colorize("GOOD", "eselect news read new") + " to read new items.")
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6 > I guess that's fine, but I have to wonder how many people are really
7 > that lazy. To me, it actually seems like more effort to highlight the
8 > span of characters with the mouse than it does to type them out.
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10 > Also, when the work "read" appears twice on a short line like that, it
11 > gives a wordy/redundant feeling.
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13 Also "new" is the default for eselect's read action, therefore
14 "eselect news read" would be enough.
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16 Ulrich