Re: "Metas"

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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Narcoleptic Electron wrote:
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| It seems that the most widely supported name thus far
| is "...".

As far as '...', since I haven't had an opinion yet -- I believe that a
'...' would be nice, but the usage of '.' and '..' is so generic
(current/parent dir) that we want to make sure '...' is just as generic
and universally useful.  Otherwise, we may end up with things like
'...................' in a few years.

Also, I can't see ... as being any easier than ..metas (or, of course,
.metas).  At the shell, it's typing "<dot> <dot> <dot>" instead of
"<dot> m <tab>" or even "<dot> <dot> m <tab>".  Anywhere but the shell,
and there's really no point, unless we're afraid of hitting some limit
on filename length that I'm not aware of -- in which case, this is not
the place to optimize.
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