Hello,
I noticed the other day when running ls in a terminal that some file names with
spaces were quoted. I was quite confused, as I was sure they hadn’t been saved
with quotes at the beginning and end of the file name. I’m not someone who
often uses the terminal, but I know enough of what I was expecting (that file
names created without quotes shouldn’t have quotes around them) that it threw
me way off. Some of what were quoted were directories, and at first I was
typing out the quotes to cd into them. Then I discovered it still worked to cd
into them without typing the quotes, which was at least better. But I really
don’t want those quotes. They look weird, and they make me feel like I mistyped
when I created the file or directory.
I did some more digging, and discovered that I can alias ls to ls -N to get rid
of them, but I sure don’t want to have to make this new alias for every system
I use from here on out.
I have already read every bit of
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813164#226 already and the
stubbornness of the devs is surprising and disheartening.
Isn’t open source a friendly place? If most people think things are a bad idea,
why do them? This isn’t something that helps new users—it’s just going to
confuse them, like it confused me.
Please do us all a favor and revert the change. Thanks so much,
-David