Opened 19 months ago

Last modified 19 months ago

#66500 new enhancement

Remove $ dollar sign from line copy&paste (user terminal commands) — at Version 3

Reported by: esbugz Owned by:
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: guide Version:
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Description (last modified by esbugz)

Terminal commands that a user is supposed to type are formatted with $ dollar sign

$ Commands to be typed into a terminal window.

However, this makes it very inconvenient to copy&paste the easiest selection item — the whole line — since the $ dollar sign will corrupt the command.

The better way is to either:

  • enhance the guide's terminal command field to show the $ without it being selectable on triple click as some other websites do, or do what you do on https://ports.macports.org/ — you don't even need to triple click to select a line, just click the copy button
  • or change the syntax to exclude the $ altogether (a much more disruptive move as it's a common convention to denote user terminal input with $)

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 19 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Version: 2.8.0

comment:2 Changed 19 months ago by esbugz

Description: modified (diff)

comment:3 Changed 19 months ago by esbugz

Description: modified (diff)
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