Jonathan Yu dijo [Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 07:35:56PM -0400]: > Since nobody seems to have noticed, I'd like to re-propose my idea for > consideration: > > Files: a b > c d > e > f > > (ie, using continuation lines to specify lists of files, rather than > commas or anything else. No escaping necessary.)
Yup - But the newline is also a valid (altough, yes, very uncommon) part of a filename. Now, this proposal keeps the field RFC822-ish — We could extrapolate this a bit, and accept basically any non-whitespace strings delimited by whitespace. Newlines are just one form of whitespace. And, of course, you can escape any whitespace character to prevent it from being treated as whitespace. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
