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Re: Proposal to add and maintain the w3m package
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:15:13AM -0500, Bob Heckel wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:20:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Bob Heckel wrote:
>> >Here are preliminary setup.hint's
>> >
>> >@ w3m
>>
>> Can you explain what in the documentation suggested to you that you
>> needed to use this "@ w3m" tag? I have read the setup.html web page
>> repeatedly and it seems really clear to me that it isn't required but
>> you are at least the third person who has recently submitted a
>> setup.hint with this.
>>
>> I'd like to correct the documentation so that I don't have to keep
>> making this observation over and over again.
>
>The template's use of italics (http://cygwin.com/setup.html#setup.hint)
>confused me. I knew I had to enter "some text" and guessed that
>because "package" was italicized too, I needed to enter that. Plus, as
>Igor said (thanks for the helpful comments, Igor), I needed a way to
>distinguish w3m and gc hints.
You were taking something as a template which was just a list of all of
potential fields available in setup.hint. I think you needed to read
the surrounding text.
Maybe we need to add a "Read This" section underneath or something.
cgf