I think the reason was to use two letters to identifiy the language, and
keep the third one fixed ("x") because in the old day of MS-DOS 8.3 names,
the suffixes were usually of three letters. I have no problem at all with
this. All boils down to "easy to manage".On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:45 PM scootergrisen <scootergri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Den 28-06-2018 kl. 20:14 skrev Antonio Giovanni Colombo: > > Hi, > > > > the reason for the suffix in the file names is that "that way" all the > > files (and the tags tags-ll files) are in the same directory. That makes > > a lot of sense to me (I don't have to define a directory to get the > > Italian docs, and the English docs are always available asking e.g. > > intro@en). > > But why change a common file exenstion like .txt to unknown file > extension like .dax .itx .cnx .rux? > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- /||\ | Antonio Colombo / || \ | azc...@gmail.com / () \ | anto...@geekcorp.com (___||___) | az...@yahoo.com -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
