[FM Discuss] command line manual - please have a squiz

[adam hyde]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 16:48 +0200, Luka Frelih wrote:
> heya!
> 
> great book, nice catch fixing the pre bold font.
> 
> on page 77 (advanced  part toc) gnu screen lost the space between words
> 
> in regexp chapter, "fuzzy matching" is used where i guess "pattern 
> matching" is more appropriate.
> i understand fuzzy to mean approximate matching, using soundex or 
> levenshtein distances to find similar strings, like in typo correction 
> or spellchecking.
> 
> perhaps it would be nice to mention the rpl command in the sed chapter? 
> i know it's not installed by default but it's a more user friendly way 
> to perform basic search and replace, which is usually the first reason 
> to use sed in a command line
> 

so...luka, how do i empower you to bring this content to the level you
desire? (its a standard line now ;)

i can show u where the edit button is...

:)
adam


> also not sure why (looks like some font encoding foo?) but try 
> copy-pasting everything from evince to a text editor. i get mostly a lot 
> of greek-letter garbage. this also makes searching in the manual find 
> only things in courier.
> 
> best,
> LF
> 
> adam hyde wrote:
> > soooo....the rather amazing command line manual is pretty much good to
> > go...we will send to the FSF and they will print 200 and give us the $
> > which in turn goes towards another collab sprint with the FSF...
> >
> > there has been some amazing contribs to this manual and no little thanks
> > to andy for being the master maintainer for the manual...it looks and
> > reads fantastico!
> >
> > there is a copy of the pdf here:
> > http://adam.engagetv.com/cli/
> >
> > this will go to the printer. there might be a few tweaks, but this is
> > pretty much it
> >
> > last call for feedback...
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> 
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