> From: Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> > > > On 2012-09-11, at 7:45 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > yeah, but can we not use ()? They really suck if you actually have to > > \(-type them rather than shell complete them. > > (And if you have fu.gif and fu(, you have to type the (...) > > Parens can cause problems with shell globbing as well, and should be > avoided. I > prefer: > > foo -> foo-1 || foo-2 || foo-3 ... foo-999 etc. > foo.bar -> foo-1.bar > foo.bar.baz -> foo.bar-1.baz > > If foo-1 is an existing valid file you get foo-2 instead of foo-1-1, but > it's a rare > enough occurrence that it's not worth worrying about.
Sounds good, better then parens, to me. steve -- _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
