Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it's really a major annoyance, you should switch to > an editor that lets you circumvent such things more easily. > In Emacs, C-xC-q is the typical binding to toggle read-only. > For Vi, to save a file owned by you, in spite of its read-only > setting, just use :w!
I suspect he's objecting to even these minor hassles. Also, :w! does not overwrite readonly files in Bill Joy's original "vi", which I still commonly use (I just tested this on Solaris 10). (I still prefer the original "vi" to VIM since my fingers are used to its behavior. :-) And perhaps other people use other editors; we can't really expect everyone to switch to Emacs or VIM. > I was wondering about the 14-byte file name length limitation that > we've worried about over the years. But it's been so long since anyone > has reported a problem with longer names, that I suspect they dropped > out of common usage some time ago. I tend to agree. For what it's worth, POSIX with the XSI extension has required support for 255-byte file names since 2001. Plain POSIX still only requires 14-byte file names, but even platforms claiming support for only plain POSIX support 255, on all practical development platforms I'm aware of. (Runtime environments could well be different.)
