Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >> * Emile van Bergen >> >> | Hi, >> | >> | On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Ian Hickson wrote: >> | >> | > And I would scream if you called it "/_My_ Variable Data/" too... :-P >> | >> | I would even scream at >> | >> | /Variable Data/ >> | >> | simply because it encourages slow and RSI-inducing click and drag >> | behaviour, because such path names are impossible to type in (and this >> | one even requires escaping the space to distinguish between the argument >> | separator). >> >> Tab completion or using /Va* is about as fast as /var. > > I've considered tab-completion and /Va*, but you must realise that they > work only in the shell. > > Neither tab-completion or globbing is available when I'm editing a file > and have to write those path names. There are lots of other cases where > you must type a pathname in full. > > scp (on the remote side) is one that's important. > Use the ZShell, then! ;-)
Otherwise, I of course fully agree that names like /Variable Data/ are evil. Regards, Andy -- Andreas Rottmann | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.8ung.at/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://www.8ung.at/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint | DFB4 4EB4 78A4 5EEE 6219 F228 F92F CFC5 01FD 5B62 Make free software, not war!
