On 12/24/2013 06:18 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
I prefer simplicity with some resulting limitations on what can be done,
over complicated efforts to do 'anything'. It's just as Bart said, some
issues are better left 'unsolved'. The solution could be worse than the
problem. I think back to my DOS days, where almost all of the 'special'
characters were reserved--it sure made things simpler.
I think you're conflating the text UI of a shell, the filesystem and the
shell language itself as part of the same issue. Yes, taken together, I
do agree that from my user point of view it's definitely inconvenient
and the interaction is not ideal. However, I would gladly prefer a shell
solution than "fixing" what's clearly not broken: the filesystem.