Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers?

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On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:54:15 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:

> not.socialnetwork@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> For how many more years are we going to tolerate the burden of
>> accomodating the whims of the ART students?
>>
>> The need to read masses of `man *` which are contaminated by the NOISE
>> of eg:
>> "..The default quali-
>> fier  is  trace....
> 
> Rant makes no sense.
> 
> You can use any formatter you like for man pages, including troff which
> is capable of rendering tables with real borders, proportional justified
> fonts, multiple font sizes, bold, italic,
> and line drawings.
> 
> I use Emacs (M-x man), and get nicely formatted, easily searchable
> pages.

No!
The lowest-common-denominator: ie. man <ID>;
 should give plain-text WITHOUT broken-words to "get nicely formatted"
 for the <ladies fashion magazine> type.

Emacs is an EXTRA-layer.
And the ballet dancers who want extra-extra can have music and lavender
scent too. 

If you're navigating in difficult conditions, and quickly need info,
being forced to access Emacs, is like needing a governmenbt application
to scratch your ear. 

First of all get the minimal/basics right!

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Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? not.socialnetwork@gmail.com - 2015-01-04 22:01 +0000
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? "John K.  Herreshoff" <Nope@not.here> - 2015-01-04 17:15 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-01-04 20:46 -0800
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-01-04 17:54 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-07 12:09 +0000
      Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-01-07 09:08 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-01-07 12:21 +0000
      Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-01-07 09:19 -0500
        Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 09:49 +0000
      Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca> - 2015-01-08 04:33 -0500
        Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-01-08 09:07 -0500
          Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 07:35 +0000
            Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-01-09 20:49 +0000
            Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca> - 2015-01-15 23:51 -0500
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-01-04 23:05 -0500
  Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2015-01-05 15:31 -0500
    Re: Why don't the engineers just shoot the ballet-dancers? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 04:39 +0000

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