<html><body><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">On Dec 09, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:</span><br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><br> Maxwell, Adam R wrote:<br> <br> <br><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">Where does that end, though? How about texdoc {python,tcl,r,ruby,sh}?</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">Why is anyone asking texdoc about perl? IMNSHO, it's perfectly okay</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">for texdoc to give a stupid answer to a stupid question.</blockquote><br> -\infty. There are no stupid questions, there are only stupid<br> answers, of which yours (IMENSHO) is just about as stupid as an<br> answer can get.</div></div></blockquote><span> </span></div><div><span>I look forward to your reimplementation of texdoc, whereby</span></div><div><span> texdoc omelet</span></div><div><span>will give the appropriate recipe for a 3-egg omelet. Make</span></div><div><span>sure it includes cheese.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Seriously, it sounds like you want texdoc to be the equivalent of</span></div><div><span>Apple's </span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Siri or some other purportedly omniscient machine.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Interpreting user input and giving a possible match is nontrivial</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">for a system as massive as TeX Live. If the current texdoc is</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">really confusing people so much, perhaps it would be best</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">to reject </span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">a query that doesn't have a trivial match and just print</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">an error message.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">As I wrote to another poster offlist, far more than just perl</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">scripts are included in the guts of TL 2013. Should all of</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">these interpreters be known to texdoc?</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">$ exts=( py rb sh tcl pl ) ; for ext in "${exts[@]}" ; do echo $ext && find /usr/local/texlive/2013 -type f -name "*.$ext" |wc -l ; done</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">py</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> 74</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">rb</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> 63</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">sh</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> 143</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">tcl</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> 2</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">pl</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> 264</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div></body></html>