[CentOS-docs] Format for giving examples of commands
Yves Bellefeuille
yan at storm.ca
Sun Jun 17 16:23:29 EDT 2012
On Sunday 17 June 2012, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think people's opinions will split on this. When the above change
> was made, Karanbir Singh noted on IRC:
I guess I'll have to start following IRC.
> I tend to agree that we want to be sure users do not just copy the
> while thing in one shot.
The main problem with copy and paste, I think, is that usually a
carriage return is automatically added at the end, and so the command is
immediately executed. Forcing users to copy and paste individual bits
does nothing to prevent this.
Yves
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