-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
Am 11.11.2016 um 22:23 schrieb Eric Blake: > > Knowing the pitfalls makes it easier to justify why an output that is > unambiguous Will it honor alt-space at some point? > was chosen as the new default over the previous ambiguous > output; any further changes to the default are now a matter of > fine-tuning about how much (or how little) decoration we can get away > with, while still avoiding a regression to the situation of ambiguous > output. For copy and paste you don't need quotes around alt-space, but you don't see where it ends: $ ls --quoting-style=literal a b a b a b a b xx $ ls --quoting-style=shell 'a b' a b a b a b xx $ ls --quoting-style=shell-always 'a b' 'a b' 'a b' 'a b' ' xx ' $ ls -l total 0 - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:13 'a b' - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:13 a b - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:17 a b - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:17 a b - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:45 xx $ ls -l --quoting-style=shell-always total 0 - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:13 'a b' - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:13 'a b' - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:17 'a b' - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:17 'a b' - -rw-r--r-- 1 reuti staff 0 Nov 11 21:45 ' xx ' Personally I like only the two options to quote always (as you expect such names) or never, but not to quote sometimes. - -- Reuti -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAlgmPLUACgkQo/GbGkBRnRoTsgCfeApMOM3wijQorhmpWX1y1cuJ YYEAn2n9j0eSzoGWLVbDmg2g8l+A1Evj =jqwR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
