On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:47 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Under linux that's not nessecary > > as you can just use long filenames including spaces.. > > > > I do that, of course. It solves 95% of my issues. Somehow, I still > miss that feature. Additional comments would help me, for example, > when I have a series of source code files with similar file names, and > need to make comments to distinguish them. Especially when other > programs are looking for the file names in a series.
The simplest way I can see to do it, would be to: - make a bash script called "ls" - put it in your ~/bin directory (not in /bin) - make an alias to _your_ ls, which first checks for a descript.ion file or maybe even .comments file in the current directory, and then passes the rest to ls. A bit of fiddling, but that's what linux is about - if it doesn't work the way you want it: make it work the way you want it!! Let me know if you want to know more about this method. -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> Obviously your filters are throwing away mail from Randal. :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list