From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 2 20:30: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C82037B403 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thistle.bogs.org (thistle.bogs.org [198.137.203.61]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA94856 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from thistle.bogs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thistle.bogs.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f933RXS08792 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@thistle.bogs.org) Message-Id: <200110030327.f933RXS08792@thistle.bogs.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-To: Giorgos Keramidas X-Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT- (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 03:11:50 +0300." <20011003031149.B17924@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:27:33 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011003031149.B17924@hades.hell.gr>, Giorgos Keramidas cleopede: >Greg Shenaut wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity, what would be an instance where you have >> wanted a space in a filename and wouldn't have been satisfied with >> 0xa0 instead of 0x20? > >All of them. Space is so conveniently placed under the tip of my thumb. >To type 0xa0 I would hav to use exotic keystroke combos like: > > Left_Alt + Num_1 + Num_6 + Num_0 > >and that's a real pain to type. I just type ALT(space). It's even easier than SHIFT(-) (underscore). Anyway, I have found using 0xa0 (and underscore) very handy to prevent the kinds of contortions necessary when dealing with filenames and other text using word-oriented tools. I really don't think that space characters belong in filenames, but that's just my opinion. Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message