On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:37:09AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > With that caveat, would it be enough to use the same escapes that 'ls -b' > uses and accept that into the strings? That would make it easier to > cut and paste the result into the configuration file. It would also > allow keeping basically the same design as currently exists.
The first proposal consisted of preserving the old command-line options (e.g. --prunepaths) whilst adding new ones (e.g. --prunepath) that allow one to specify one directory at a time, thus eliminating the need to do any complicated parsing of escapes.
