maybe if there was a simple thread on how to read a datasheet might be better. It could be just the basiscs, such as setting ports to digital, analogue or a mixture, what the bits do what. My suggestion would be to keep it generic to families if PICs (such as the 12F family that default to analogue rather than digital as this often crops up)

I agree that telling someone to RTFM isn't a lot of help, but I also agree that if you go to deep with this sort of thread you'll end up re-writing the datasheet, and then it becomes a reference manual rather than a sheet !