Dvc.org: exclude $ when copying

[efiop]

See https://discordapp.com/channels/485586884165107732/485586884165107734/558281550270038037 .

Is this even possible with our md files?

[robogeek]

It looks like the comment is that in the documentation we put

$ dvc add foo.txt

Meaning, there's a $ at the front of the line, and the person writing the comment finds that inconvenient. I can understand the point.

In the dvc.org Markdown files it would be trivial to remove those things, just edit the files and remove them.

However ...

This is a longstanding practice by nearly/all authors of documentation for Unix command-line usage. Use of $ and # at the beginning of command text denotes whether the command is run as a normal user or as root.

The person writing the comment seems to believe this is not common practice? As a user of Unix systems since 1981 (or thereabouts) that my experience is this IS common practice.

[ei-grad]

The person writing the comment seems to believe this is not common practice?

No, there is a suggestion to alter the HTML (or introduce some javascript to make a fancy code blocks) to make it easy to copy the command alone. It looks quite a big effort for a minor issue, as of mine.

[efiop]

@robogeek I totally agree with you! I didn't mean to remove $, I meant that it shouldn't be selectable like in https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-or-change-timezone-on-debian-9/ .

[efiop]

@ei-grad Agreed, I'm wondering if it is a big effort though :)

[shcheklein]

there is an ongoing effort to fix this by @ashelkov, hopefully soon.

[shcheklein]

it should be possible to do this with JS

[shcheklein]

closed by https://github.com/iterative/dvc.org/commit/b50e38c97f8f8433eaeb6df3819aea533c85cbae

[Suor]

Sorry for returning to the closed issue, but a small imperfection is bothering me:) When we have several $ command lines leading space is selected starting from the second one:

[shcheklein]

@Suor yep, it's bothering me as well. Let's fix it :)