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> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:31:30 +0100<BR>> From: wagner@elegosoft.com<BR>> <BR>> Quoting Jay <jayk123@hotmail.com>:<BR>> > Do people tend to have firefox or firefox-bin on $PATH on Unix, if <BR>> > they have it on their machines?<BR>> <BR>> People I know use all sorts of browsers on Unix: firefox, mozilla,<BR>> opera, conquerer, ...<BR>
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That wasn't my complete point, but partly.<BR>
Do people have their browser in $PATH?<BR>
Such that a full path isn't needed?<BR>
I guess the answer is sometimes yes sometimes no.<BR>
<BR>> <BR>> I still use fvwm and avoid all more enhanced desktops if possible ;-)<BR>> <BR>> > Is anyone, um, interested in adopting spaces in their file paths on <BR>> > Unix and work out the kinks?<BR>> <BR>> This has been tried before, but it will break all simple usage<BR>> of command line utilities (and there are hundreds of these).<BR>> I personally don't see the point of using spaces in file names,<BR>> but opinions may differ on this topic.<BR>
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I agree it is pretty pointless, but yet unfortunately on Windows there is "Program Files" and such and it's not going away.<BR>
The biggest problem with quoting is you never know how many layers are going to quote/unquote.<BR>
Really it's a major type system problem...one flat string vs. an array of strings.<BR>
If only we typed in our command lines in a little gui with a box per parameter. :)<BR>
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cm3/cm3cg is very clever in one way here.<BR>
cm3cg always gets its input and output from the current working directory.<BR>
Boom, so many annoying problems gone. :)<BR>
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I don't think "hundreds" of utilities are relevant here, just a few.<BR>
cc, ld, libtool, cl, link, cm3, cm3cg (not), and a little bit over in m3cc/m3gdb make sed sh.<BR>
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Ok, nevermind...just that I see those short paths..what a hack, they aren't even guaranteeably available, the option can be turned off....once this stuff is in I'll try to take a look at and fix it, only for the small number of visible cases, not the hundreds of cases.<BR>
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