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Re: underscores in gnulib file names
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: underscores in gnulib file names |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:35:14 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I admit that .eh seems a little odd, and would
>> require everyone to teach their editor about the new suffix.
>
> True; that's a pain.
>
>> How about the "..h" suffix, e.g., stdlib..h? Do we care enough
>> about 8.3 limitations to worry about that?
>
> I don't think we do nowadays, no. Might some software get confused by
> the "..h" extension? Emacs treats "..h" like ".h"; perhaps that's
> good enough. Another option is to use "-e.h" as an extension, or
> something like that. But I like the brevity of "..h".
>
> I'd rather not have gnulib-tool rename files as it imports them, as
> that adds confusion.
I prefer ..h, too. Does anyone object?
- underscores in gnulib file names, Paul Eggert, 2007/09/06
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/06
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/07
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Paul Eggert, 2007/09/07
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Karl Berry, 2007/09/07
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/09/07
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/08
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/08
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/08
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/08
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Paul Eggert, 2007/09/10
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/10
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Karl Berry, 2007/09/10
- Re: underscores in gnulib file names, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/10