Return vs. Enter

[Dougie Richardson]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:17:36 -0400
Joel Goguen <jtgoguen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:57 -0800, Sam Hain wrote:
> > Hello
> >  
> > What task are they trying to accomplish?
> To enter a command on the command line.  Which itself is something I
> think new users should be led away from wherever possible.

Why?

This is often quoted about our documentation - Linux in general is
quite command line oriented and configuration is mostly still text file
based.

I don't see why shielding new users from it is as productive as getting
them used to it from the beginning.

Cheers,

Dougie