Re: [Monotone-devel] [bikeshed] envelope please

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:22:24AM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>   -- maybe change the configuration dir from ~/.monotone to ~/.mtn.
>      No-one seemed to much care for this idea, which seemed a little
>      weird to me (I dunno, would you expect ls to find its
>      configuration in ~/.list?), but whatever, this isn't really
>      urgent anyway so I'm happy to ignore it for now.

Actually, though, on this note, does anyone actually _know_ what prior
art exists for this question?  'ls' is not really a good example,
because everyone just calls it 'ls', while 'mtn' would still
presumably be pronounced "monotone".

The only thing I could find in a similar situation is "midnight
commander", which has command name 'mc' and uses ~/.mc.

(There's also subversion, which has command name 'svn' and puts config
in ~/.subversion, but that doesn't really count, because they have the
same situation -- they use .svn for bookkeeping dirs, so they can't
use it for their config.)

Anyone know of other prior art?

-- Nathaniel

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