On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Farber <dfarber@numenor.com> wrote:

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.

Try the attached. They take away the pain. I wrote most of them. Use them for what you will. The cr prefixes should be self-explanatory. findassign looks for assigns in C files. finddefine looks for defines in C files.

Another thing to do is to change your IFS (see sh (1)) to be lf & tab instead of lf, tab & space.

David