root user

[allan juul <la...@inet.uni2.dk>]

hi

first, i made a minor mistake yesterday that no-one noticed because you guys 
dont use IE4.0 [who does ? :) ]


http://www.bullitt.suite.dk/mod_perl_site/display/3333-i-8a.html


anyway, i'm not sure at all if this is a good idea but couldn't we use a color-
code for the root vs normal user problem for promts?

(im not sure what this would mean from an authors point of view)


i agree with everyone that copy paste would be great, so on this preview the 
normal user is blue and root is red (and font bold).


i might have missed a few arguments during discussions so take it as 
inspiration if you like :)

cheers
/allan

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Re:

 root user

[Per Einar Ellefsen <pe...@skynet.be>]

At 20:01 06.06.2002, Stas Bekman wrote:
>allan juul wrote:
>
>>http://www.bullitt.suite.dk/mod_perl_site/display/3333-i-8a.html
>>anyway, i'm not sure at all if this is a good idea but couldn't we use a 
>>color-
>>code for the root vs normal user problem for promts?
>>(im not sure what this would mean from an authors point of view)
>
>-1
>
>* some people are color-blind
>* some people may read it on B&W terminals (really?)
>* some people print on the B&W printers (and shades of grey are hard to 
>distinguish)
>* could give you a bunch of other reasons if you ask for :)

* the line is black on Opera :(

>>i agree with everyone that copy paste would be great, so on this preview 
>>the normal user is blue and root is red (and font bold).
>
>I guess we simply need to weight the benefits of each style. If we remove 
>the prompt it's easier to copy-n-paste, but more confusing..
>
>I think multi-line copy-n-paste won't work properly everywhere in any 
>case, because some browsers insert new lines when they wrap long lines.

The copy-and-paste argument is dead. We need a prompt either way, because 
if not it'll be too confusing.


-- 
Per Einar Ellefsen
per.einar@skynet.be



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Re:

 root user

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

allan juul wrote:

> http://www.bullitt.suite.dk/mod_perl_site/display/3333-i-8a.html
> 
> anyway, i'm not sure at all if this is a good idea but couldn't we use a color-
> code for the root vs normal user problem for promts?
> 
> (im not sure what this would mean from an authors point of view)

-1

* some people are color-blind
* some people may read it on B&W terminals (really?)
* some people print on the B&W printers (and shades of grey are hard to 
distinguish)
* could give you a bunch of other reasons if you ask for :)

> i agree with everyone that copy paste would be great, so on this preview the 
> normal user is blue and root is red (and font bold).

I guess we simply need to weight the benefits of each style. If we 
remove the prompt it's easier to copy-n-paste, but more confusing..

I think multi-line copy-n-paste won't work properly everywhere in any 
case, because some browsers insert new lines when they wrap long lines.


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