Re: First UI component needing replacement.

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:

> On the other hand, "?" is used as a wildcard key on both Linux and
> Windows, and isn't a permitted file name character on either of them
> last time I checked.

[20:01:33] wesley:~ $ touch ta\?jfh\n
[20:01:50] wesley:~ $ ls -l ta\?jfhn 
-rw-rw-r--    1 ats      ats             0 Aug 13 20:01 ta?jfhn

Nearly any character is allowed in Unix filenames.  Only ones I can
recall that aren't are '/' and '\0'.

> Tab isn't a valid filename character. Space is.

Both are.  It's just harder to make one with tab in it.

[20:03:36] wesley:~ $ touch "`echo -e 'ea\tt'`"

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