I'm sorry, I still don't understand why so many people insist on using underscores in place of spaces in things like file names.
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I'm sorry, I still don't understand why so many people insist on using underscores in place of spaces in things like file names. It isn't more readable or better than dashes in any way & it fucks up things like end-of-word keyboard shortcuts - is there, like, some secret benefit that I, an idiot, am unsavvy of...?
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I'm sorry, I still don't understand why so many people insist on using underscores in place of spaces in things like file names. It isn't more readable or better than dashes in any way & it fucks up things like end-of-word keyboard shortcuts - is there, like, some secret benefit that I, an idiot, am unsavvy of...?
@jwcph Yes, backwards compatibility among different ancient filesystems and web urls. And I don't want to read your longform filenames. The 8+3 form still rocks
I only use dashes, almost never underscores -
@jwcph Yes, backwards compatibility among different ancient filesystems and web urls. And I don't want to read your longform filenames. The 8+3 form still rocks
I only use dashes, almost never underscores@simonjust @bazkie I get the "no spaces" thing but are underscores better than dashes by the same standards, i.e. ancient conventions?
To be clear, I never use spaces in file names & while I do use "longform", in the sense that a file name has to indicate what's in the file - which also makes it searchable, by the way - I keep it as short as I can; even modern file systems sometimes run into (undeclared) character limits.
8.3 can suck it, though, that's too short to be useful.
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@simonjust @bazkie I get the "no spaces" thing but are underscores better than dashes by the same standards, i.e. ancient conventions?
To be clear, I never use spaces in file names & while I do use "longform", in the sense that a file name has to indicate what's in the file - which also makes it searchable, by the way - I keep it as short as I can; even modern file systems sometimes run into (undeclared) character limits.
8.3 can suck it, though, that's too short to be useful.
@jwcph @simonjust I can only speak for myself, and I think I prefer underscores over dashes because I'm a programmer, and in most programming languages, variable names can't have dashes, but can have underscores.
so I guess in my mind, a dash, like a space, is a special character, while an underscore is fine "everywhere".
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@simonjust @bazkie I get the "no spaces" thing but are underscores better than dashes by the same standards, i.e. ancient conventions?
To be clear, I never use spaces in file names & while I do use "longform", in the sense that a file name has to indicate what's in the file - which also makes it searchable, by the way - I keep it as short as I can; even modern file systems sometimes run into (undeclared) character limits.
8.3 can suck it, though, that's too short to be useful.
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@jwcph @simonjust I can only speak for myself, and I think I prefer underscores over dashes because I'm a programmer, and in most programming languages, variable names can't have dashes, but can have underscores.
so I guess in my mind, a dash, like a space, is a special character, while an underscore is fine "everywhere".
@bazkie @jwcph @simonjust
This is also my reason. -
@bazkie @jwcph @simonjust
This is also my reason.@Eka_FOOF_A @bazkie @simonjust I suspected it might be a programmer thing...
