Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)
Emile van Bergen <emile-deb@evbergen.xs4all.nl> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
>> * Emile van Bergen
>>
>> | Hi,
>> |
>> | On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Ian Hickson wrote:
>> |
>> | > And I would scream if you called it "/_My_ Variable Data/" too... :-P
>> |
>> | I would even scream at
>> |
>> | /Variable Data/
>> |
>> | simply because it encourages slow and RSI-inducing click and drag
>> | behaviour, because such path names are impossible to type in (and this
>> | one even requires escaping the space to distinguish between the argument
>> | separator).
>>
>> Tab completion or using /Va* is about as fast as /var.
>
> I've considered tab-completion and /Va*, but you must realise that they
> work only in the shell.
>
> Neither tab-completion or globbing is available when I'm editing a file
> and have to write those path names. There are lots of other cases where
> you must type a pathname in full.
>
> scp (on the remote side) is one that's important.
>
Use the ZShell, then! ;-)
Otherwise, I of course fully agree that names like /Variable Data/ are
evil.
Regards, Andy
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