bug-coreutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: stat -f output standpoint


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: stat -f output standpoint
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:48:36 -0600
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to address@hidden on 3/15/2008 10:33 PM:
| (P.S., you might enjoy writing `' instead of "", but it just leads to
| cut and paste accidents sent to the shell, for me at least, about
| twice a year.

You do realize that it is possible to create a custom LC_MESSAGES locale
which translates the strings "`" and "'" to your preferred quote strings?
~ For that matter, the address@hidden locale already does most of that - on
capable terminals, it uses nicer-looking quotes and bolds the output (and
since those quotes aren't active shell characters, copy-n-paste is less
likely to cause accidents), and on less capable terminals, the output is
transliterated to "\"" and "\"" rather than "`" and "'".

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAkfcpqQACgkQ84KuGfSFAYA4OgCg12uSRy8WG5PDsBxndgUbd4aW
7w4An1oM0OnZkBBDG939QsOnIACkDEmG
=la/l
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]