Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:11:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: nik@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010618151002.88082G-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200106181259.f5ICxN601890@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On 16 Jun, Nik Clayton wrote: > > nik 2001/06/16 04:42:29 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips > > Log: > > More tips, this time from the Russian Fidonet FreeBSD Echo. > > Speaking of tips, can we have shell-specific tips "subsections"? When > asked for tips, the fortune(6) will detect the user's shell and add the > particular subsection to the pool of quotes to choose from... Things > like ``setenv NAME value'' vs. ``NAME=value; export NAME'', etc. Sounds like you want a usertip(1) which looks at context and gives advice, or given a specific topic, identifies advice appropriate to that topic? :-) Overloading fortune with this might not be the right path forwards: it has the right properties for a random message, but not for context-sensitive stuff. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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