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That's cool and all, but oh dear god WHY did you have to capitalize things?! BLASPHEMY.
by arghwhat 9y ago
That's cool and all, but oh dear god WHY did you have to capitalize things?! BLASPHEMY.
- perryprog 9y agoCase insensitive auto completion FTW.
- arghwhat 9y agoThat's a nice convenience feature, but when it starts to become a necessity, you should really reconsider your naming schemes...
- ufo 9y agoCapitalizing the directory names is a way to guarantee that they will not conflict with the directories in the legacy file system hierarchy.
- arghwhat 9y agoI find that to be quite a weak argument. Avoid conflicting with known standard structures such as "bin" ans "etc" if necessary (which it isn't—you could theoretically run all applications in a filesystem namespace mimicking their expected structure), but that should be the only concern. Non-standard structures might clash anyway (capitalized folders in root does unfortunately occur).
- ufo 9y agoThe known standard does change though. For example, since Gobolinux came out in 2003 the FSH added /run and /sys...