Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 6, 2005, 07:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509060013520.4316@evo.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90509051713389c62c8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 
> Grep knows how to ignore binary files.

That wasn't the _point_.

The point is, naming things as being "scripts" is useful. Grep is just an example. Naming things as being ".pl" or ".sh" is _not_ useful.

So with grep you can use -I, but what about doing things like "em *" when doing global renames (I use micro-emacs - em - as my editor). Again, "em *-script" actually works.

The point being that if we have naming rules, make them USEFUL. *-script is useful - it works wonderfully well for "git xxx" (which knows to add "-script"), and it works wonderfully well for developers.

		Linus

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