From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:52:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.39-rc4-l33+; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <86ipu0evi2.fsf@cmarib.ramside> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104262052.36817.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] spaces in filenames Topicbox-Message-UUID: d61689e6-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tuesday 26 of April 2011 20:42:49 Rob Pike wrote: > Sometime around, maybe, 2000, I flipped the bit in the frogs table so > spaces were legal in file names, for two reasons: we were seeing > spaces in file names from remote systems and seemed simpler to accept > them than to remap them, and I wanted to know how it would affect > things. > > Not all software has caught up, I suspect. It's only been a decade. on the topic, is acme still your favorite editor, Rob? asking, cause it is mine, and about the only thing i miss in it is sensible support for whitespace in pathnames. i'm using the p9p version, btw. -- dexen deVries ``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.''