Re: Thoughts on userdir

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm ... this also touches on a future aliasing module. I'd like to be able
> > to alias a/*/b to c/d/*, for instance, or even more general stuff. It would
> > be good if the notation for UserDir were compatible with the notation for
> > aliases.
> 
> Good point. Hmm. But * implies wildcard matching, since that's what it's 
> used for in most of the Unix world, and indeed in your alias example. But 
> in userdir, it isn't really matching anything, it's replacing it with the 
> username... I'm not sure * is the right character to use here. So I guess 
> that's the question. What is the right character... hitting shift and my 
> number keys, I get !@#$%^&*(). I suppose one of them. Or maybe ~, since 
> that's usually associated with user's home directories. No, that could 
> get *really* confusing, now, couldn't it... Hmm.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 


I think that * makes perfect sense.