From: "Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Documentation improvements
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 05:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahm09t$gr2$1@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <049201c231c0$3af5e2f0$a352a518@samsystem>
"Samuel" <samuel@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:049201c231c0$3af5e2f0$a352a518@samsystem...
> I am a newbie but my first message to the mailing list was not ignored. What
> does that mean? I don't know.
>
> In my first message I said: "I am new to this mailing list and to Cygwin. I
> also have not used Unix for over a decade. I am familiar with C and C++ and
> I have been using Visual C++
> since the first version."
...
If another newbie's perspective is of any use I can
tell you a few more things that I have discovered
to help orient yourself with the package:
whatis and apropos are two related commands
which seem to interrogate a partial concordance of
the documentation. I'm still looking for a way to make
the results more complete.
The first time I installed CygWin man did not work.
I can't remember the exact symptoms. I waited for
a new version and reinstalled and then it started working.
Not all functions have man pages.
Info is another documentation tool. Only a few packages
seem to use it.
Another way to get oriented heretical as it may sound
is to use Windows Explorer and its Find tool.
For example press F3 while open at the CygWin root
and enter *.htm and you will see that other packages
are documented as sets of browser pages. Evidently
we have to get used to inconsistency.
Vim and emacs are installed as editors. I don't
know--trying to get familiar with all those keystrokes
seems more effort than is worthwhile. The idea of
being able to integrate them eventually with shell functions
though seems to be my incentive for keeping at it.
I don't have a programmable editor on Windows
so I do far too much data analysis with shell commands.
Less is the alternative to More that you need
to get used to. More is referenced by the Less Man
page but is not found. I can't remember what
tweaked me to using less. It may have been from
trawling through the FAQ but as I recall I didn't find
that as useful for getting familiar with the default
install as I might have expected.
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
---
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-22 15:00 Samuel
2002-07-25 5:38 ` Robert Aldwinckle [this message]
2002-07-22 16:05 Harig, Mark A.
2002-07-25 6:34 Dockeen
2002-07-25 6:51 Samuel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='ahm09t$gr2$1@main.gmane.org' \
--to=robald@techemail.com \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).