From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-04-23T00:29:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Facets 0.6.3

> Not that it matters, but I'm (also) against naming files using a
> meta-char (i.e. "?")  in arguably the most ubiquitous shells in use
> today.

I find this curious becuase we dela with this kind of thing all the
time in regexp --the need to escape certain characters b/c of their
special meaning. So in the case of file names couldn't ? and * be
escaped just as easily? I do think it is ultimately preferable that
file names be free-form. Take for instance what my Grandmother did
today. She was image searching her name on Google. She came across a
picture with a path name ending in 'm_callas.jpg'. She actually infered
the name Mary Callas from that. I would have never knowned myself --too
bad it doesn't just say 'Mary Callas'. Of course it could, but that
comes out as Mary%20Callas, or something. I'm smart enough to infer
obviously, but isn;t it rather silly that we Humans have to put up with
the techno garble?

T.