Xorg error messages are poor.

Xavier Dectot xavier.dectot at free.fr
Thu Mar 30 23:08:43 BST 2006


Le Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:33:26 +0200,
Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> a écrit :

> Op do, 30-03-2006 te 09:37 -0500, schreef Scott Bronson:
> > > and worse still typing help on the
> > > command line brings up 'help' for bash rather than the general
> > > system!)
> > 
> > Interesting observation.  I never thought about it but, yes, that's
> > some of the most user-hostile help I've ever seen.  I vote for
> > filing this as a bug. 
> 
> A fix for that might be as easy as adding:
> 
>         alias help=yelp

Most certainly not. You might need to use help while stranded out of X,
due to a misconfigured xorg.conf, and then using a graphical interface
for help would end up as kind of awkward, wouldn't it ?

alias help=info would be better, but might get the newbie lost.



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