[Vm-dev] Spaces in file names (was: renaming dprintf)

[David Farber]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 1:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Spaces in file names are natural to Mac users. They only occur in  
> the "platforms/Mac OS" subtree. I usually only check out the  
> "platforms/Cross" and "platforms/unix" directories. Then you can  
> easily use your regular unix tools.

Spaces in file names are natural to Mac users (I'm a Mac user) but,  
in my opinion, they are best left to the "casual users" and the GUI  
side of the OS.  If I'm working with documents in the regular GUI  
apps (Text Edit, Word, the Finder, etc) I will use spaces in file names.

But if I am on the "unix" side of the OS (using Terminal, using  
emacs, using unix tools, doing development, etc) I do not use spaces  
in file names.

My preference would be to remove spaces from the file names in the  
Mac OS subtree.

And, while we are on the subject of regular unix tools and  
preferences, I would *very* much like to change Squeak's line ending  
from lf to cr.  grep, diff, less, and company are unusable with lf- 
delimited files.

David