On Tue, December 7, 2010 09:58, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> David Dyer-Bennet wrote on Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:30:45 -0600:
>> On Tue, December 7, 2010 09:03, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> > David Dyer-Bennet wrote on Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:44:28 -0600:
>> >> And, in any case, VISUAL is a public interface, and I wonder how many
>> >> other applications would break if I put that kind of thing into
>> >> VISUAL.
>> >
>> > Morale: don't use paths with spaces.
>>
>> Yes, that would be simpler. But as I said in my initial post, I first
>> discovered this on Windows under Cygwin. Avoiding "c:/Program Files"
>> and "c:/Documents and Settings/david.dyer-bennet/My Documents"
>> involves contortions and leaves you putting things in unusual places.
>>
>
> Just create a symlink in cygwin?
I keep forgetting Cygwin will do that. Using shortnames has also been
suggested (which are ugly, but hey, this is all inside scripts, so I
shouldn't care).
>> Linux defines spaces as valid characters in paths and filenames, so
>> people are going to try to use them. And Subversion does support
>> Windows.
>>
>
> Newline, tab, and colon are also valid in on linux, and I'm sure some
> parts of Subversion will not work properly if you use them. (Do we
> URI-encode paths in svn:mergeinfo and 'svn diff'?)
And those are bugs too :-).
>> (Spelling nit, no flame intended: "moral"; not "morale". They're
>> both real words with quite different meanings, so it's of value to
>> keep them distinct. And now I have no doubt guaranteed 3 basic
>> language mistakes of my own somewhere in this message :-) .)
>
> Thanks for the correction; appreciated.
>
> (Shouldn't you have spelled out 'three'? Just yesterday I found a bug
> related to using 'two' instead of '2'.)
Yes. Well, that's at the level of "style" and so is more arguable, but
nearly every authority calls for spelling out numbers up to about six when
used in sentences. Good catch!
(Pruned back to users list and eliminated most of the direct CCs.)
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