instructions how to paste commands incorrect

Thanks for reporting this bug.

Which document are you referring to?

It is called "Using the command line".

Triaged to Confirmed. Need to update docs. Who should this be sent to?

TerryG: Thanks, this bug is already in the right place.

The first issue still needs fixing.

I don't think we need to worry about the second issue - if people are using non-default terminal emulators then they can worry about that, documenting each terminal emulator would make the document unwieldy.

Certainly; but a word of warning that other emulators may behave differently would not harm.

I'm taking this one - it's been a while since I've worked with the system docs, though...

...and here is-a patch. Now, that didn't seem so hard. :)
Comments, please?

I do not like the last sentence.
+ NB: these actions may mean something entirely different to some other terminal emulator.
+ Consult the your emulator's documentation for details.

I have no objection to that. Unfortunately bzr won't allow me to make a new diff, so to whoever commits the patch: Please take into consideration the two lines added by Christopher.

Hi Mads,

Thanks for the patch. I've reviewed it, and there were a couple of spelling/grammar typos:

 * "Rick Click" => "right click" (typo, plus no need for capitals)
 * "Middle Button Click on your mouse" => "click the middle button on your mouse"
 # "also simply mark" => "also mark"
 # "Internet Browser" => "web browser"
 # "may or may not work" => "may not work"

The ones marked with a "#" instead of a "*" are nitpicks, and so are so trivially minor that you can probably happily ignore them.

BTW, why won't bzr let you make a new diff?

Here is a debdiff that includes Christopher's and Phil's suggestions. It also fixes a very small typo in the serverguide (LP: #285892)

You can have "to some other emulator", "to a few other emulators" or just "to other emulators". You cannot have "to some other emulators", those things are countable.

Here is the corrected version. As already mentioned, it also contains a small bugfix for bug #285484.

Can this merged into the ubuntu-docs bzr branch so we can get it from there?

Daniel, do you mean I should register a new branch at https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc, then branch the one for Jaunty (https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-doc/ubuntu-jaunty), change the code and propose it for merging into the one I branched from?

Martin - you don't need to make a formal merge proposal, it's sufficient to attach the patch to the bug report as you have done.

I've applied your patch with two changes:

1. "make" -> "select" (I think you must have meant "mark" here, but "select" is a better term)
2. Instead of "NB" I've used the <note> tag, which is appropriate for such statements.

For future submissions it's not necessary to make a new changelog entry, we tend to bunch a whole lot of changes together with ubuntu-docs package releases so these will all go in the changelog entry together.

Thanks for the contribution.

With pleasure. Thank you, Matthew, for the information.

Matthew: shall I take this out of the sponsoring queue for now? Do you want to do a "bundled" upload?

Daniel - yes, please take this out of the queue, I'll upload it shortly with other changes.

Done.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-docs - 9.04.2

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ubuntu-docs (9.04.2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Various serverguide fixes:
    - Grammar error (LP: #203829) - Dean Sas
    - Fix mailman dependencies (LP: #291772) - Morten Siebuhr
    - CVS installation error (LP: #298605) - Thomas M
    - Postfox installation error (LP: #306289) - Adam Sommer
    - SSH update (LP: #311900) - Dean Sas
    - unzoo replaced by zoo (LP: #312506)
    - Samba instructions update (LP: #313232) - Adam Sommer
    - Clearer SSL instructions (LP: #314951) - Adam Sommer
    - LDAP error (LP: #319179) - Adam Sommer
    - MoinMoin installation fix (LP: #320840) - Adam Sommer
    - Postfix ssl improvements (LP: #323203) - Adam Sommer
    - Ebox instructions error (LP: #324399) - Dean Sas
    - Typo in openssh section (LP: #325828) - Dean Sas
    - Typo in samba section (LP: #285484) - Nick Ellery
    - SSHD fix (LP: #295279) - Adam Sommer
    - Jeos fix (LP: #307582) - Adam Sommer
    - Remove reference to ebox-all package (LP: #322367) - Adam Sommer

  * Typo in "switching from windows" (LP: #309735)
  * Broken link in "programming" (LP: #310081) - Jonathan Jesse
  * lsb_release issue in "basic commands" (LP: #310713) - Thomas M
  * Updating logout instructions (LP: #327060) - Dean Sas
  * Updating all documents to use apt-url for installation instructions
  * Refreshing pot files for Rosetta
  * Recompress *.png files with 'advpng -z -4 file.png' to save space - Sahak Petrosyan
  * Improve instructions on pasting commands (LP: #185892) - Martin Mai
  * Rewrite of networking instructions (LP: #298513, LP: #321308, LP: #314680, LP: #321179) - Dougie Richardson
  * Amend punctuation of about-ubuntu (LP: #275592) - Dougie Richardson
  * Documentation for automatic login (LP: #290467) - Dougie Richardson

 -- Matthew East <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:50:28 +0000