There was a Discussion yesterday at work about allowing quotation marks and semicolons in some user-set titles. We use Mongo. But I empathize.
I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
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Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#12Spaces in file names are a nightmare in Makefiles.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#13All because we use programmatically interfaces that were intended for humans to write: command line, sql, html, email headers.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#14Why stop at spaces?
An old prof of mine used to send emails where the subject line was always a valid identifier in C.
Hello_dear_students_where_are_your_reports_
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#15Slightly off topic but I find myself stuck at being "please for the love of god don't use spaces in git branch names" old. Anno dazumal this might not even have been an issue and I'm just cargo culting.
And on that topic, git branches are case sensitive but windows filesystem API isn't. Git branches are materialized on the filesystem as files and directories.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#16ascii, no spaces for me i still get issues with old one-off scripts, that still work, and I forgot to properly quote stuff... plus the urls are pain in the ass with the %20;s.
[0-9A-Za-z_-]+ for me.
Same here and most of the time it's even just [0-9a-z_]+ It's simple and there are no suprises around the corner
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#17I'm hardly afraid but I just think it's poor ergonomics. Same as the move from
xset m 0 0
xinput --set-prop 'pointer:Logitech USB Receiver' 'libinput Accel Profile Enabled' 0, 1
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#18I don't use spaces because it's so much faster to type filenames out (including with TAB-completion) in the terminal.
I do, however, use Cyrillic (UTF-8) in filenames, and I regularly try out if moving a file into ASCII-path will let some programs open it (half the time it's that when I am having trouble).
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#19Spaces in file names are a bad idea because spaces delimit the name of separate distinct files,
At least in my crazy old illogical head anyway.
Re: I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
#20Spaces in file names are a bad idea because spaces delimit the name of separate distinct files, At least in my crazy old illogical head anyway.
File names should be long enough to clearly communicate meaning/purpose/context, no more no less.