From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest renaming Emacs source file with '$' in name Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:18:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83k0swfrld.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2bde9b88-083a-abd4-bb44-61e33b97b492@cs.ucla.edu> <874kk13q4v.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <079821fb-335b-14cd-0023-a565f93c62c8@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19755"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, schwab@linux-m68k.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 01 19:20:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kvP1s-0004ii-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:20:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48582 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvP1r-0003Uj-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvP16-0002h6-Dd for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34200) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvP15-00082S-KT; Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2657 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kvP14-00074v-NS; Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:19:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <079821fb-335b-14cd-0023-a565f93c62c8@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 1 Jan 2021 08:54:38 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262259 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 08:54:38 -0800 > Cc: Stefan Kangas , Emacs Development > 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 > > 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. I think Paul is right, and we should rename that file. It isn't an important file, so renaming it shouldn't present problems we usually try to avoid.