From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>,
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Minor RST rant
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 07:48:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200806064823.GA7292@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200805151230.GT2674@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 05:12:30PM +0200, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > FWIW, I *really* like how the extra markup renders in a browser, and I
> > don't think I'm the only one.
>
> The thing is, I write code in a text editor, not a browser. When a
> header file says: read Documentation/foo I do 'gf' and that file gets
> opened in a buffer.
>
> Needing a browser is a fail.
And that is my main problem with all the RST craze. It optmizes for
shiny display in a browser, but copletely messed up the typical
developer flow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-06 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-24 17:22 Minor RST rant Steven Rostedt
2020-07-24 17:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-07-24 18:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-24 23:46 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-29 12:44 ` peterz
2020-08-05 14:49 ` Vegard Nossum
2020-08-05 15:12 ` peterz
2020-08-06 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-08-06 8:36 ` Vegard Nossum
2020-07-28 12:52 ` peterz
2020-07-28 15:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-29 9:36 ` peterz
2020-07-24 17:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-24 18:14 ` David Sterba
2020-07-24 18:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-24 23:58 ` NeilBrown
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