Re: [Nmh-workers] mhstore overwriting files

[rader]

 > From: Lyndon Nerenberg <address@hidden>
 > 
 > 
 > 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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