* Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> [20030326 09:31 PST]: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 22:50, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > Right. That would help usability in the short term, but it feels more > > like a workaround than a fix. > > Why should a user have to know the difference between a minus sign, en > dash, em dash, hyphen, etc. to search a manpage? They all look > approximately the same --- just different lengths, and sometimes > different vertical position and width. I agree that this is a UI improvement for the pager, but I don't think it fully addresses the issue of using the wrong characters, specifically because of the copy-paste problem. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.anti-dmca.org/
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