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Worst thing ever. A different team took over some web documentation that I'd written, with various examples of Linux command-line use. They somehow round-trippe
by YoooThere 4y ago
Worst thing ever. A different team took over some web documentation that I'd written, with various examples of Linux command-line use. They somehow round-tripped all the content through Word and all the dashes silently became em-dashes. The fun we had when users had trouble with the examples that they'd copy+pasted from the web pages!
- alpaca128 4y agoThose things are why I hate this whole culture of creating "user-friendly" software that not only tries to be clever and helpful without first asking what you actually want, but then also actively fights you if you dare to refuse the "help". Same with those editors that auto-close parentheses and quotes and when it's wrong and I want to delete a redundant quote it also deletes a second one because the developers apparently did not foresee a situation where an odd number of quotes can exist in a file. Not smart enough to do anything right but just smart enough to annoy people. Unpredictable behaviour for key inputs is not user-friendly.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 4y agoObligatory call out to excel and its auto date formatting which everyone hates, have hated forever, causes real damage, yet exists to this very day.
- Yizahi 4y agoSimilar thing happens with our python docstrings, web gui silently converts all double en dash sequences into an em dash. So basically all extended linux keys instead of looking like this (--help) look like this (—help) which is always fun to debug later, if someone has copied example from the help page :)