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Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages
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Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 15:55:11 +0100 |
Hi Branden,
> > The troff system was designed to be typed at a keyboard. The
> > dot-on-the-left rule might be ugly, and the requests/macros terse,
> > but the benefit to the user is relatively few keystrokes above those
> > needed for the text.
...
> Nothing has come close to saving me more keystrokes than <TAB> at the
> shell prompt and CTRL-N in Vim.
Completion is useful, but `.bp' and `.B<tab>' don't have equivalent cost
even if the latter completes to `.BreakPage'. `.bp' can be just be
typed whereas completion is an interaction that interrupts the writer.
Has tab proffered the correct expansion? No, should I tab again, feed
it another character, or move the cursor down two in the list of
alternatives? Once the interaction is finished, the writer tries to
resume his train of thought.
There's also a cost to the reader as `.bp' is less noisy than
`.BreakPage'.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, James K. Lowden, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Damian McGuckin, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, John Gardner, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages,
Ralph Corderoy <=
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, James K. Lowden, 2017/04/30
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/30
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Deri James, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Deri James, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/28
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/04/28