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Re: Image handling in mutt

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Image handling in mutt
Date 2023-12-10 17:30 +0100
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On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 04:15:22PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2023-12-09, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Friday,  8 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Pocket wrote:
> >> In Unix and Linux there isn't a file extension, that is a microsoft
> >> invention.
> >
> > Predates MS by years.  Systems like RSTS/E on PDP-11s, just to name one.
> 
> They certainly are convenient. 

When they aren't a lie. Remember those "foo.jpg.exe"?

I always consider putting metadata in a file name a "design smell" [1].

That's why I cringe when people name executables "foo.sh". What do you
do when you decide to rewrite the thing in C (or Rust, or whatever)?

Do you go over all calling sites and change the caller's code?

Cheers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell
-- 
t

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Image handling in mutt Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-08 18:00 +0100
  Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-08 18:10 +0100
    Re: Image handling in mutt Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-08 22:50 +0100
      Re: Image handling in mutt David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2023-12-08 23:00 +0100
        Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-08 23:10 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-08 23:40 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-08 23:50 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:10 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-09 00:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:30 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-09 00:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-09 00:30 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-12-09 09:50 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2023-12-10 17:20 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-10 17:30 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-12-10 19:40 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-10 19:50 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-10 21:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-12-11 02:30 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-12-11 16:30 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-12-11 21:20 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 12:40 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 13:30 +0100
        Re: Image handling in mutt "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2023-12-11 14:10 +0100
      Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-10 21:10 +0100
        Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-10 22:00 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 13:20 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 13:40 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2023-12-11 13:50 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-11 14:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 15:10 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 15:40 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 16:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2023-12-11 19:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 23:10 +0100
                On file systems [was: Image handling in mutt] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-12 06:40 +0100
                Re: On file systems "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-12-12 11:50 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-12-11 13:50 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 15:00 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 15:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-12-11 15:40 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 15:50 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 15:50 +0100
          Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-11 16:00 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com> - 2023-12-11 16:10 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-11 17:10 +0100
            Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 16:10 +0100
              Re: Image handling in mutt Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-12-11 16:20 +0100
                Re: Image handling in mutt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-11 16:30 +0100
  Re: Image handling in mutt Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 00:10 +0100
    Re: Image handling in mutt Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 01:20 +0100
    Re: Image handling in mutt David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-11 16:30 +0100

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