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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by carlhjerpe on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:58PM (#29193086)
I'm not sure I'm a fan of the capitalization and spaces, other than that I'm all for more self-explanatory names.
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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by johnlorentzson on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:09AM (#29198108)
Why not? That's how proper English text is written. Of course there are many programs that can't handle it properly (or handles it inconveniently) so in practice it might be problematic at times, but otherwise I see nothing wrong with it.
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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by xeyownt on Friday November 12, 2021 @08:24AM (#29199022)
Why compare with English? It's computer domain, it's not a book or a poem. It should be clear and unambiguous.

Caps are annoying to type, and difficult to remember (Do You Caps, or Do you caps, or DO YOU CAPS, etc).

Spaces are nuisances that bring no benefit. At best we should use non-breaking space for filenames, but that would be even more atrocious.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by carlhjerpe on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:24AM (#29198193)
Generally just because typing it out with tab completion in zsh sucks, and I don't see a good solution (if it was solved nicely it'd be solved already)
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