Documentation Collaboration | Copy Code Button | Tiny Improvements Save Time

[Quark]

Dear Community,

​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/install/

Documentation Collaboration
It would be great if the Django student community, could edit the online documentation collaboratively.
Through source control?

Copy Code Button
It would save a lot of time, if Django students, could click a Copy Code Button,
instead of having to highlight and copy.

Tiny Improvement
On the page listed above, change:

python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"

to:

cd `python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"`

All this saves time.

The current steps:

1. Highlight code.
2. Copy text.
3. Fire up terminal.
4. Paste text.
5. Execute code.
6. Type cd <directory>

Steps after optimisation:

1. Click copy button.
2. Fire up terminal.
3. Paste text.
4. Execute code.

If it were possible to trust web page code, the quality plateau, would be:

1. Click execute button (to execute steps 1-4).

If the inefficiency is 20 seconds, and 100,000 people go through these hoops,
The total time wasted is ~23 days.

Best Wishes,
Quark.

[Tim Graham]

Hi Qwark,

Thanks for your feedback!

1. Absolutely -- we accept pull requests from GitHub for documentation fixes, see ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/submitting-patches/

2. I'm not sure how we could add a copy code button to our documentation -- perhaps if you would like to do some research or bring up the idea on the ​http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers mailing list, we could explore it further.

3. I'm not sure why adding cd to the command is needed. The intention is simply to print the location of site-packages, not change directory to that location.