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Re:90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD... by jdoliner on Friday August 19, 2011 @08:26PM (#2905382)
Alright, I guess I'm not fully aware of all of Nano's features. And yes, my entire point is that it's much better to teach them to fish for tricks in various places rather than teaching them individual tricks. Also I was only a T.A. in this class (and actually only did grading) so I never got a chance to teach.
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Re:90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD... by wvoq on Friday August 19, 2011 @10:41PM (#2905583)
You're there in the lab to see them make these mistakes, but you can't tell them to man nano?
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Re:90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD... by jdoliner on Friday August 19, 2011 @11:34PM (#2905655)
No, read the comment you just responded to. I only did grading. It wasn't until I asked a friend of mine who was in the class what he thought of it and he responded: "Line numbers are a bitch" that I discovered what was going on. At which point I mentioned to the professor that she might want to bring up man pages.
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