[chirp_devel] #553 Icom ID-51 support

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

On 2013-02-20 13:23, Tom Hayward wrote:
> I just changed it to table format instead of code format. Is this more
> intuitive?

No, because it still appears as a sequence of operations (which it is).  
It's apparently an example of what you CAN do, and not what you SHOULD 
do, to get started.  When I teach flying to a new student, I don't show 
them how to recover from a spin in the first lesson (some instructors 
do, but they don't retain many students) ...

It's raining, so I'm going to give this about an hour shot tonight. Each 
day I'll give it a try, until I have success, or get tired of the process.

During this journey, I may make sarcastic comments about the 
documentation (which is my complaint, not the actions of HG). Please 
don't take them personally;  we are all volunteers.  However, if the 
process of retaining volunteers is difficult, that adds to the load on 
the existing volunteers, so my hope is that they encourage modifications 
to the documentation.  For I hope obvious reasons, I'm not the person to 
be making any documentation changes anytime soon.

So here goes:

#1. You say, "If this tool intrigues you, you can learn how to use it 
here: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqTutorial". So, I guess if 
someone is not intrigued at the time (and thus doesn't follow the link), 
but just wants to submit some changes, one doesn't get to learn that you 
apparently need to do a "hg init --mq" at the beginning ...

-- to be continued ...