Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

[Dale]

Florian Philipp wrote:
>
> Sure thing. However, it is much faster to type `echo foo>  bar` than
> writing "Open your favorite file editor and enter 'foo' into 'bar'."
> Being concise is often the better approach when you want to show a
> solution to the problem at hand instead of educating the reader.
>
> Everyone who is able to install Gentoo should be able to understand the
> shell line and use whatever approach he wants to achieve the same result
> and if he is satisfied with the given line, he has a copy-and-paste
> solution at hand (my colleagues call this "service to the reader").
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>
>


Yep, one could write to open a file with nano or vi.  If the user knows 
what he/she is doing, opening it with kwrite would work just as good, 
unless the GUI is broken.  I often get help from folks who say to edit a 
file one way but I may do something with a different tool than they 
use.  Prime example being vi compared to nano.  Does the same thing but 
a different tool.  It's a matter of preferences is all.  I use nano but 
if someone writes to use vi, I know how to change the command to work 
with nano.

The biggest thing is, if a problem can't be solved on this list, it's a 
BIG problem or a nifty new feature.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)