On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:00:24AM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > >- Use the .patch or .diff or no extension at all, not .txt. > > Why? This is Linux, where filename extensions are next to ignored.
Correct, but may help a human: ls -l ueb.txt hmm, I wonder what this file is. I either run file <ueb.txt> or I cat ueb.txt, and look at the lines to determine it's a "patch" file. Where as if you simpley put .diff or .patch it may help a human determine what exactly the files use is. It's also neater and doesn't hurt. Why does linux use .conf then for config files? And also, you don't require as I said, you could just have "ueb", but a file extention, can only benefit! > > One place where they are not ignored is Emacs, where using the .patch suffix > results in the buffer's being read-only. This is not good as I have to > remove a hunk that updates my Alva driver the way I want it. I doubt the > driver's author would want to do it my way instead of his way. Uh that's strange, emacs doesn't seem to do that when I open emacs <file.patch> what happens with .patch extention? No extention is also okay, but txt is slightly missleading. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
