On 2018-01-08 21:30, Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus wrote:
some cases it takes space (like in file managers). Up to 4 letters is fine for me, 5 is stretching it and anything above that is only something i'd use for file types that i wont see often in a list and even then only if i can't avoid it (but really even just 4 characters gives you a lot of variation).
Then it seems Windows Explorer is right up your alley. :) They hide the file extension by default. Users (like me) have to explicitly go into the settings and enable "show file extensions" option.
Even better, Linux and FreeBSD don't even need file extensions. File Extensions are simply for [some] human benefit (unlike Windows that requires them). Linux and FreeBSD OS's query the first 4-8 bytes of a file to accurately determine the file type and use the appropriate application to open them.
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