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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] another poke at the special chars
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Miles Bader |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] another poke at the special chars |
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Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:40:44 -0500 |
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:30:23PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
> I also object to this "severely broken" label; as I have stated before
> on this list it is both optional and remarkably useful, so useful in
> fact that I would find a workaround for the arch usage rather than
> turn it off.
No doubt it is useful, but I don't think it's useful enough to justify
another magic character that mutates input in surprising ways. They easily
could have added a riff on an existing magic character instead, as Tom
showed.
[I often want to get the path of an executable too, but it's certainly at
least order of magnitude less often than e.g., using a home dir (~).]
-miles
--
I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme
or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] another poke at the special chars, Miles Bader, 2003/11/26