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- From: Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:31:17 +0100
On Monday 21 of January 2008 17:04:48 flux wrote:
> > First of all, the welcome screen describing the back and "next" commands
> > is easy to understand. The "list-steps" ans "jump ..." are helpful, but
> > I have forgotten their names about three steps into the installation.
> > I could rembember "todo" after about 20 seconds of thinking about it.
> > An "introduction" command that prints the welcome screen again would be
> > useful ("help" is already taken by bash).
>
> You are not alone in having this problem. Others have reported the same
> issue. I had already renamed "list-steps" to "steps" in development to
> try and make it easier to remember, but definitely we need some
> help-listing command. I'm not sure it should be called though, as
> "introduction" seems counter-intuitive, as do the names I can think up
> at present. The best would of course be help, which is taken. Something
> like "commands" maybe? Can I get a consensus from the list here as to
> what the best name would be? The vote is on! :)
Why not help? It can be overriden (declare a function) and I doubt many
people
know it or would need to use it during the install. Even if that happened,
they could use "builtin help".
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[SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
flux, 01/20/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO, flux, 01/20/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
Martin Spitzbarth, 01/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
flux, 01/21/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO, Jaka Kranjc, 01/21/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO, Remko van der Vossen, 01/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
David Kowis, 01/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
Martin Spitzbarth, 01/21/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO, David Kowis, 01/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
Eric Sandall, 01/23/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO, flux, 01/23/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
Eric Sandall, 01/23/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
David Kowis, 01/23/2008
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[SM-Discuss] ISO docs and issues (was: Please test new devel ISO),
Karsten Behrmann, 01/23/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO docs and issues (was: Please test new devel ISO), Eric Sandall, 01/23/2008
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[SM-Discuss] ISO docs and issues (was: Please test new devel ISO),
Karsten Behrmann, 01/23/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
David Kowis, 01/23/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
Martin Spitzbarth, 01/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Please test new devel ISO,
flux, 01/21/2008
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