On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:12:35PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>
> > David I don't get this... what are you copying from/to that would
> > wouldn't just script? If you throw into a script you can change
> > the delimiter on the fly using translation.
>
> The problems are a) there's no guarantee the data is safe to put through your
> hypothetical tab-destroying copy/paste anyways. There could be tabs or other
> unsafe characters in the data. b) We have no way of knowing which characters
> are or aren't safe in your hypothetical copy/paste system. Why is tab unsafe
> in the first place?
>
> Personally I find anything that would encourage people to use anything other
> than tabs evil anyways. All those people who think | is somehow a reasonable
> choice or want to use commas and then get all confused trying to escape them
> and invent ever more confused syntaxes for escaping the escape characters.
> Just use tab separated data like man was meant to.
I'd say that the multiplicity of strong opinions on The Right
Delimiter is a pretty strong argument for having a switch to control
it.
Cheers,
D
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