/etc/motd update

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-09-07 12:52, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2014, Royce Williams wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Based on feedback from -arch, now there is a version that uses only
>>> harmless, inoffensive ASCII whitespace to delimit the commands:
>>>
>>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.whitespace
>>
>> Not to bikeshed overmuch, but such usage of extra whitespace seems
>> odd/rare, and harms readability.
>>
>> If the intent is to help new users get oriented, it doesn't serve the
>> intended purpose, IMO.
>>
>> Better to offset with quotes or something:
>>
>> Other questions or problems can be emailed to the questions at FreeBSD.org
>> mailing list.  Please include the output of "uname -a" and any relevant
>> error messages.  The "man man" command gives an introduction to manual
>> pages, and hier(7) describes the FreeBSD directory layout.
> 
> This is pretty much what we have now:
> 
>   % `uname -a'
>   Unmatched `.
>   % "man man"
>   man man: Command not found.
> 
> The goal is to give a new user literal commands that do not need
> interpretation.  I was surprised at how subtly the double spaces showed
> that the command was separate from the rest of the text.  It's not
> ideal, but there is a serious lack of options in plain ASCII.
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Yeah, having it on its own line, indented, seems to work the best.

But for some of the short ones in the middle of a sentence, like uname
-a, that probably doesn't make sense. The double space is the best i've
seen so far.

-- 
Allan Jude

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