Ben Schmidt wrote: >> Ahh, indeed, there is the problem and the reason why computing has not >> advanced as much in the last 15 years as one would have expected >> seeing the 15 years before: Backward compatibilty has hobbled us. > > Indeed, I think it has. The Mac OS used to use resource forks and type > attributes > which were beautiful. Now we have descended to the level of extensions and > magic > numbers like everyone else. The filesystem supports resource forks and named > forks, but nobody's really using them yet--indeed, if anything, at the moment > they > add confusion because some parts of the OS detect file types that way rather > than > by extension, when available, so it's hard to know what's going on.
And that sad story told, I do agree with the other posters who don't think this has much use in Vim. I think to have some kind of consistency, probably an OS or other fairly central component needs to lead the way, not a text editor. Ben. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
