Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 10:52:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/motd update Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409071004170.27870@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BE3k90xjYc3KeufVvSw5jnmqCyhnxgQQP5zga71_3_AWaZAZg@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408131411390.3442@wonkity.com> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1408141138460.21571@multics.mit.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409051731180.14570@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409051811350.14570@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409070748001.89128@wonkity.com> <CA%2BE3k90xjYc3KeufVvSw5jnmqCyhnxgQQP5zga71_3_AWaZAZg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2014, Royce Williams wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> >> Based on feedback from -arch, now there is a version that uses only harmless, inoffensive ASCII whitespace to delimit the commands: >> >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.whitespace > > Not to bikeshed overmuch, but such usage of extra whitespace seems > odd/rare, and harms readability. > > If the intent is to help new users get oriented, it doesn't serve the > intended purpose, IMO. > > Better to offset with quotes or something: > > Other questions or problems can be emailed to the questions@FreeBSD.org > mailing list. Please include the output of "uname -a" and any relevant > error messages. The "man man" command gives an introduction to manual > pages, and hier(7) describes the FreeBSD directory layout. This is pretty much what we have now: % `uname -a' Unmatched `. % "man man" man man: Command not found. The goal is to give a new user literal commands that do not need interpretation. I was surprised at how subtly the double spaces showed that the command was separate from the rest of the text. It's not ideal, but there is a serious lack of options in plain ASCII.
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