On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:56:41AM +0100, seventh guardian wrote: > On 7/15/05, Nick Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I challenge you to do "ls ~ -la". I bet you would be lost. Having a > > > program configuration dir would help to sort things out, and would > > > benefit every one. > > > > Done that. Not Lost. > > > > What was your point? > > > > > > For instance, if you try to find the config dir for that particular > program, and you don't know its name, then doing ls -la is useless, > because (at least in my case) the terminal buffer overflows, so you > can't see the first dirs that show up. Unless you pipe it to less, but > then you loose the colour formating..
That's easy :-) ls -la | less -r I don't want to mean that I am against this .config directory, but isn't it just a shift of "tons of files" from one directory to other. I see no big difference in terms of clarity or difficulty finding a file between ls ~/config/ or ls -d .* ~ David -- My fvwm config: http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~vilar/fvwm.html David Vilar Torres RWTH Aachen Tel: (+49) 241 80 21611 Lehrstuhl f. Informatik VI Fax: (+49) 241 80 22219 Ahornstr. 55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-52056 Aachen (Germany)
