Comment by kabdib
4 years ago
My proposal for a shell on the Mac, in the late 80s, was:
- Spaces in filenames get transformed to non-breaking spaces by the filesystem;
- The filesystem treats nbsp as equal to space (just as case-folding treats A=a, B=b, etc.)
Now, argument parsing, mouse double-clicks, etc. all respect filenames as "words", and the output from things like 'ls' just work.
(Yes, I'm well aware that there are case-sensitive filesystems out there. I'd forgotten that iOS was one of those).
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