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.''
