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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] naming conventions
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:32:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3ff81f04ee52820237c23ead451c137@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bca08f7e5b22db500c54deb4b58bc0c@swcp.com>

> I've been catching a little flack off and on about the Plan 9's naming
> convention of adding a '9' in front of program names.  I've also noticed
> that using emulators, on the linux side, prefixing a 9 breaks history
> utilization functionality in most of the shells I use.

your shell is broken.  [0-9] are perfectly valid anywhere in a unix file
name.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-14 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-14  8:29 EBo
2010-06-14  9:01 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-06-14 13:32 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-06-14 13:47   ` EBo
2010-06-14 15:16     ` Stanley Lieber
2010-06-14 15:19     ` erik quanstrom
2010-06-14 15:35     ` Nick LaForge
2010-06-14 21:10       ` hiro
2010-06-14 21:24         ` EBo
2010-06-14 21:32           ` erik quanstrom

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