Narcoleptic Electron wrote on Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:40:42 -0400 (EDT): > I agree... two commas are much easier to type. I think it is still a little hard to > read, though. I'm also not convinced on aesthetic grounds... commas don't look like > stand-alone entities to me, and they're not symmetrical. I think that they look a > little too code-like. > > One more suggestion: "-" (hyphen). It is very easy to type (one keystroke, no shift > key) and when file names are sorted, it will likely rise to the top (comes before > dot, comma, underscore, tilde). It also just looks cleaner to me.
Unfortunately a hyphen by itself confuses many programs, like "cd". "cd -" doesn't work. I guess that leaves ,, as the only one easy to type (no shift key needed), that doesn't have too many other impacts, and it does come out in the front of the sort order, even before "..". - Alex
