I’ve been switching from Vim to Helix recently. I did the built-in tutor, and whenever I need to configure something, I look it up in the docs. The problem is, I only find what I already know to look for. Without reading the documentation more broadly, I don’t really know what I can configure in the first place.

So I’m curious, do you sit down and read documentation to understand a tool, or do you just search it when you hit a specific problem?

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Problem is a lot of people don’t understand how to read a doc. There’s a terminology, phraseology, syntax.

    This reminds me of the ExifTool documentation… It feels like a well written documentation (and probably is) but the lack of context as a non programer can be overwhelming ://.

    Thankfully, the forum was of great help and the maintainer is still active after all these years… Incredible tool by the way !!!