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[Joel Sinor <jsinor AT comcast.net>]

I have so far found that browsing with ls or using find (sometimes
piping to xargs grep) is faster to find what spell does what.  It would
be nice if gaze provides or something similar could tell you the answer
to the question "I do not have the xxx command.  What spell do I cast to
get one?" or "I do not have package xxx.  What spell do I cast to get
that?"
Esentially I generally use find and grep to see if there is a spell
explicitly named what I am looking for and if not I xargs grep the
DETAILS files in the grimoire.  When that fails I start hunting for
stuff that looks similar.

On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 13:41:01 -0400
"Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> On the heels of Arwed's posting on sm-grimoire, I'd like to call for a
> 
> usability study. The question is simple:
> 
> *** Do you use "gaze search" or grimoire browsing (in the shell or 
> otherwise) when you'd like to find a new spell? ***
> 
> I think gurus need not answer because it's probably the second choice 
> all the time?
> Please participate!
> 
> Sergey.
> 
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