From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Carrying Attributes too Far
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:20:49 -0400 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38834454565-BeMail@cr593174-a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030919044042.81352.qmail@web60004.mail.yahoo.com>
Narcoleptic Electron wrote on Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:40:42 -0400 (EDT):
> I agree... two commas are much easier to type. I think it is still a little hard to read, though. I'm also not convinced on aesthetic grounds... commas don't look like stand-alone entities to me, and they're not symmetrical. I think that they look a little too code-like.
>
> One more suggestion: "-" (hyphen). It is very easy to type (one keystroke, no shift key) and when file names are sorted, it will likely rise to the top (comes before dot, comma, underscore, tilde). It also just looks cleaner to me.
Unfortunately a hyphen by itself confuses many programs, like "cd". "cd -" doesn't work. I guess that leaves ,, as the only one easy to type (no shift key needed), that doesn't have too many other impacts, and it does come out in the front of the sort order, even before "..".
- Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-19 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-11 15:14 Fwd: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-11 15:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-13 23:59 ` Carrying Attributes too Far (was Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion) Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 1:56 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-14 3:46 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 3:53 ` Carrying Attributes too Far Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 3:39 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-16 19:15 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 17:14 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 18:08 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 20:16 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 20:31 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 21:44 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 22:00 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 22:28 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 22:42 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 23:06 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 23:17 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:23 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:28 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-19 0:29 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 0:28 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 0:46 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-19 1:45 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 2:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 4:40 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 8:42 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 13:27 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 15:13 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 15:35 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 15:48 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 13:20 ` Alexander G. M. Smith [this message]
2003-09-19 13:46 ` Bennett Todd
2003-09-19 19:31 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 22:51 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-20 1:31 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-22 15:53 ` Attribute Directory Name (Was: Carrying Attributes too Far) Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 20:02 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 22:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-22 13:28 ` Carrying Attributes too Far lrc1
2003-09-22 22:50 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-23 1:21 ` lrc1
2003-09-23 22:48 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-24 16:57 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 9:35 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-24 17:52 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 19:37 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-25 3:40 ` Hans Reiser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-04 5:58 lrc1
2003-10-04 18:17 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-10-04 20:10 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-03 19:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-05 0:30 ` lrc1
2003-12-05 5:27 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-05 12:38 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-06 23:33 ` lrc1
2003-12-07 2:48 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-07 17:08 ` Hans Reiser
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