baby steps.) So I think I'll try to raise the issue with the Git Bash folks and see what they say. (I know, I know, there's a Linux subsystem you can enable in Windows 10, but. Thing is, Git Bash is still the best thing going on Windows, for first-time learners, because MSYS2 and Cygwin are not complete solutions unless you know which packages to install. But as points out, that's not a proper substitute for being able to do man command right in the shell. The Software Carpentry course materials do, if I recall, mention that you might need to use -help instead on Windows, might (or should) note that there's a help command for Bash built-ins, and might even suggest using an online reference like. A lot of these solutions are clever, but, if we're being honest with ourselves, they aren't going to help the "learners," as the original issue states, because the root of the problem is that Git Bash is not "real suggestion is great, but honestly which student just going through these course materials for the first time is going to be using Vim, know that you can do man page lookups within it (with K in normal mode), or even recognize that that magic command needs to go in your ~/.vimrc? (Elliot, you might want to update your comment to make that clear.)Īnd that's sad, because man pages are one of the great things about a Unix environment, and it's a shame to have to go, "oh, psych, that doesn't work for you, because you have Git Bash," to which the inevitable response is "What's Git? I thought this was Unix?"
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