Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26

[Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>]

>>>>> "Elliott" == The Amazing Dragon (Elliott Mitchell) <ehem@cs.pdx.edu> writes:

[...]

Elliott> Though you do have a point that the GUI tools filenames with
Elliott> '&' or '!'  becomes more common. '\' does have the advantage of
Elliott> simply needing to by typed twice (rather than one key followed
Elliott> by shift-number combo). Useful if you need to tell the tell the
Elliott> GUI what the file actually is.

Yes.  I think that \ is nice because you just have to type it twice in
the shell.  It is also a reserved character in DOS/Windows, so at least
Windows users won't be in the habit of naming their files with \.  (It's
also an uncommon character to begin with.)

One other problem, though, that I forgot to mention in my last post, is
that in the shell, or in a script, you would have to type it twice,
whereas in a GUI, you only have to type it once, which may lead to
confusion.

Overall, I in general don't like the idea of adding a new separator
character, but if we did, I think \ would be the way to go.

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