On Sun, Apr 1, 2018, 3:16 PM Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote:

> And now to the most important question of all. ;-)  Should we use
> "file name" or "filename" when referring to the name of a file?
>
> Our docs currently are about even and I think it would be good to
> settle on one?
>
>   % grep "filename" $GCC/gcc/doc/*.texi | wc -l
>   92
>   % grep "file name" $GCC/gcc/doc/*.texi | wc -l
>   103
>
> (Once we have consensus, I'll add that to codingconventions.html
> and start by making the web pages consistent.)


Searching and looking at online dictionaries, it  looks like filename is
the currently preferred form.

--joel

>
> Gerald
>

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