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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
	Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Suggest renaming Emacs source file with '$' in name
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 08:54:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <079821fb-335b-14cd-0023-a565f93c62c8@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kk13q4v.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

On 1/1/21 2:31 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> $ git log test/lisp/minibuffer-resources/data/minibuffer-test-cttq\$tion

That solves that particular problem but the '$' caused other problems 
for me during the semiautomated process of updating the copyright.

POSIX excludes '$' from the list of characters in portable filenames 
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_282> 
and we'll avoid these hassles by sticking to the POSIX character set.

I can of course redo the scripts to handle '$' in filenames on GNU 
platforms. I could even hack them to handle other characters, too, like 
newline etc. in filenames. And others who deal with Emacs sources could 
do likewise. But that'd be a hassle and we all have better things to do.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-01 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-01 10:18 Suggest renaming Emacs source file with '$' in name Paul Eggert
2021-01-01 10:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-01 16:54   ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2021-01-01 17:10     ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-01 17:30       ` Paul Eggert
2021-01-01 17:58         ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-01 18:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-03  3:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-03  5:54   ` Jean Louis

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