Re: prompts in command examples

["Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss mailinglists gmail com>]

Murray McAllister wrote:

> The Red Hat documentation team recently had a discussion about using
> prompts (such as "$" and "#") in command examples.

If this is based on the feedback that a lot of users copy-paste the
commands into their shells and receive an error stating that the prompt
shouldn't be in, then it makes sense to remove the prompt and add
comments/narration.

However, this does bring out a separate point altogether - aren't users
expected to *not* do copy-paste and type in the commands (for better
learning etc etc) ? :)

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