[Geany] Specified compiler in custom filetype doesn't work

Duke Normandin dukeofperl at xxxxx
Sun May 8 05:21:43 UTC 2011


On Sun, 8 May 2011, Lex Trotman wrote:

> > Well what do you think that documentation is for - if not to teach. No
> > bloody use in writing documentation for an audience that already know
> > the product, is there? When you write documentation, you always assume
> > that the reader knows nothing about your product! If that's true, the
> > reader will thank you! If it's not the reader will scan the document
> > until he finds something of interest, or leave it alone altogether.
>
> Of course documentation is intended to provide information about the
> software, but a program like Geany has a wide range of users, and
> something that appears crystal clear to the writer may be totally
> opaque to a reader with different language, cultural, or background
> knowledge, or experience. Not to mention the delightful imprecision of
> the English language.
>
> This is an open source project so why don't you put your time where
> your mouth is and produce improvements to the documentation instead of
> criticising those who use their time to provide products to share.
>
> You could separate the documentation into reference documentation
> which presumes a level of expertise and does not teach and
> user/tutorial material for beginners which does teach.


You need to get a life and some manners -- asshole!

-- 
Duke



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