From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] experimental change for devmnt to deal with spaces Message-ID: <20020703164533.D6107@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <350bf465a0f62c85d7044b3f504e4bf7@plan9.escet.urjc.es> <1771288.1025710997@GOLD> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1771288.1025710997@GOLD>; from rob pike, esq. on Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:43:19PM -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:45:33 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0ddc0a0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:43:19PM -0400, rob pike, esq. wrote: > > You are changing the meaning of the space character. > Think about what that means, the number of places it > affects, the impossibility of getting it right > everywhere. This is a terrible idea. > I got it! Use   whenever you need a non-breaking space, it's a standard! % touch 'a x' will then create file 'a x'. Pity you still need quotes to escape the '&' and ';' ++L