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Re: What should go in dot files



At 14:56 Uhr -0400 18.10.2011, Mouse wrote:
>You have a point, that the skel files are suggestions to new users for
>what they might want to change.  What we have is not really much good
>for that, though.
>
>I think the files should be _nothing but_ comments, with a lot of
>natural language interspersed with examples.

NetBSD should probably ship the files you have in mind in /usr/share/examples/.

The /etc/skel/dot.* files could then consist of a comment pointer to the
example files, and two or three commented out aliases or variable
assignments, just to provide quick examples.

My 0.02 EUR.

        hauke

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