> Putting spaces in pathnames is idiotic to begin with. it’s only idiotic in the sense of tools not working with them properly. spaces are allowed in paths and

> Putting spaces in pathnames is idiotic to begin with. it’s only idiotic in the sense of tools not working with them properly. spaces are allowed in paths and filenames in most filesystems, and so tools written to handle paths and filenames should handle spaces. spaces carry no special path information, so it’s a little weird they are ignored by many tools. it would be crazy to think of tools not handling a “b” or something. and i agree with the tabs thing. although, it was pointed out to me that in a newish version of make, you can override this behavior with a flag. i doubt it works well though because of makefile compatibility issues.