[darcs-users] Re: What does `[ynWvxqadjk?]' mean?

[Karel Gardas]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> On 2004-11-20, Karel Gardas <kgardas at objectsecurity.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, [iso-8859-1] Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote:
> >
> >> Karel Gardas <kgardas at objectsecurity.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > I always wonder what does `[ynWvxqadjk?]' mean? This is shown for example
> >> > for record/push/pull commands. What I have tested, `y' means `yes', `n'
> >> > means `no' and `a' means `all', but I don't know what other chars means.
> >>
> >> The '?' means "press '?' to get a list of what these characters mean".
> >
> > Sigh! I was in impression that `?' means `press some of these characters'.
>
> That was my first impression as well. Recently I patched the manual to
> clarify this, although I don't remember which part it went into. :)
>
> It would be more intuitive if the ? was at the beginning of the list to
> avoid confusion.

IMHO the best would be to stay clearly: `[ynWvxqadjk] (press `?' for explanation)'
or something like that...

Cheers,
Karel
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