Jamie Lokier wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:Umm, no, when you write the glued /etc/passwd file it parses the delimiters in it to determine what subfile to put the parts of /etc/passwd into.
/bin could be separated (like linus said) but cat /bin/.compound could
do it. This is the /etc/passwd Hans' example, I think:
Arghhhh. I wrote it down to ridicule the idea and now people are taking it seriously ;(
It should be obvious enough that anything depending on the
kernel parsing file contents will lead to problems.
This is one case where the kernel _isn't_ parsing file contents, but I agree it's ridiculous :)
-- Jamie
Inheritance with delimiters is the best way to make emacs effective for editing lots of small files, Stallman was right and deserves credit for it.
