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1. Yes, I have, if you re-read my comment. 2. I don't want to fight extreme positions which I did not make. Read this: https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html

by oblio 1y ago

1. Yes, I have, if you re-read my comment. 2. I don't want to fight extreme positions which I did not make. Read this: https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html I didn't say paths have to have spaces, etc. Just be reasonable and <<use full words in the year of our lord 2025>>.

jadamson 1y ago
The first shell listing starts with `cd` and `ls`, the former being run in `~`. What does that weird `~` mean? Very strange. More seriously, their file system is still case-sensitive, and inside /Programs they have `Iptables` and `Fontconfig`, naively capitalized, but also `OpenOffice` and `HTTPD`. Not to mention that inside each program folder are `man` and `bin` as usual. I'm going to suggest the point of that article is structure and organization, not naming. Nobody reasonable complains about a three-letter abbreviation you can type with one hand. For a path you're either accessing a lot or never at all, it makes complete sense.
eadmund 1y ago
Anything with a capital letter requires hitting two keys: Shift and then the desired letter. Thus /Programs requires 10 keystrokes rather than 9. Even worse, since the capital letter is at the beginning of the directory name, I have to type it and am unable to rely on tab-completion. /Programs with its ten keystrokes is over twice the keystrokes of /bin and its four. Short names are quicker to type and require less effort. Given that to a first approximation I spend my entire life typing on a keyboard, I very much wish to optimise that experience.
- Timwi 1y ago
  That's really more the fault of the tab completion. There's no reason why it couldn't complete `prog` to `Programs`. It's just Unix tradition that they don't. I would prefer if they did.
  - fragmede 1y ago
    In ~/.inputrc, add set completion-ignore-case on to enable case insensitive tab completion in bash.
    - Gracana 1y ago
      Great tip! Apparently that's readline's config file, so this will affect a lot of things. That's great news for me; after switching to zsh I got used to case-insensitive tab completion, and now it annoys me when other tools don't work that way. This should help a lot.
- oblio 1y ago
  Your problem is solved by naming the thing /programs, instead. End of the world using full words, I tell ya!
HumanOstrich 1y ago
I think paths need to have emojis too in order to represent the emotional state of the person who created them in the year of our memelord 2025.
codedokode 1y ago
What's wrong with spaces? Macs support them since 80s. The only problem with spaces is caused by *nix, *nix shells, basically by Linux.

by oblio 1y ago

jadamson 1y ago

The first shell listing starts with `cd` and `ls`, the former being run in `~`. What does that weird `~` mean? Very strange. More seriously, their file system is still case-sensitive, and inside /Programs they have `Iptables` and `Fontconfig`, naively capitalized, but also `OpenOffice` and `HTTPD`. Not to mention that inside each program folder are `man` and `bin` as usual. I'm going to suggest the point of that article is structure and organization, not naming. Nobody reasonable complains about a three-letter abbreviation you can type with one hand. For a path you're either accessing a lot or never at all, it makes complete sense.

eadmund 1y ago

Anything with a capital letter requires hitting two keys: Shift and then the desired letter. Thus /Programs requires 10 keystrokes rather than 9. Even worse, since the capital letter is at the beginning of the directory name, I have to type it and am unable to rely on tab-completion. /Programs with its ten keystrokes is over twice the keystrokes of /bin and its four. Short names are quicker to type and require less effort. Given that to a first approximation I spend my entire life typing on a keyboard, I very much wish to optimise that experience.

Timwi 1y ago
That's really more the fault of the tab completion. There's no reason why it couldn't complete `prog` to `Programs`. It's just Unix tradition that they don't. I would prefer if they did.
- fragmede 1y ago
  In ~/.inputrc, add set completion-ignore-case on to enable case insensitive tab completion in bash.
  - Gracana 1y ago
    Great tip! Apparently that's readline's config file, so this will affect a lot of things. That's great news for me; after switching to zsh I got used to case-insensitive tab completion, and now it annoys me when other tools don't work that way. This should help a lot.
oblio 1y ago
Your problem is solved by naming the thing /programs, instead. End of the world using full words, I tell ya!

HumanOstrich 1y ago

I think paths need to have emojis too in order to represent the emotional state of the person who created them in the year of our memelord 2025.

codedokode 1y ago

What's wrong with spaces? Macs support them since 80s. The only problem with spaces is caused by *nix, *nix shells, basically by Linux.