Monday, March 29, 2010

Re: No more 8-character limit?

On Mar 29, 5:46 pm, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Even on later Windows systems, 8.3 names still exist because they are

Are we going to rename vim to something like
visualeditorcompatiblewithvi now ?

I think the argument confuses two different things,
(a) 8.3 limit of APIs or of filesystem, and
(b) tendency of [unix] people to abbreviate filenames and variables
*really short*.

Beleive it or not, some people will abbreviate really short, no matter
what's filename limit.

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