From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca>
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
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