Re: underscores in gnulib file names

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> It is not confusing to me that the group_member function
> has the following corresponding files in gnulib:
> 
>   m4/group-member.m4
>   lib/group-member.c
>   lib/group-member.h
>   modules/group-member
> 
> ... Do you find those confusing?

Somewhat, yes.

> I've made an effort to name files after their functions, but with the
> s/_/-/g substitution.

Yes, I agree, this consistency greatly reduces the need for searching files.
One almost always knows what the file is named, approximately, and the
filename completion in bash does the rest.

But still I'm glad that we have no file called '--fpending.c' :-)

Bruno