On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 18:11 -0700, Vince Valenti wrote:
On Tue, August 22, 2006 4:58 pm, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Does this character ever show up in UI's? Do end users even need to know about it? If not, can it be outside the printable set? If so, a vertical tab might be a good default.
I don't believe the user ever sees the folder separator. However, it would be nice to have a 'typable' character so when you're dealing with the filesystem hierarchy from a shell, it would be easier to view and navigate.
I vote for a configuration file option. I'm not sure how feasible it would be to change the default at this point since it would break everyone's existing installations.
Why not simply escape it. Eg (IMAP) Folder1.Folder.2 --> (Filesystem) .Folder1.Folder..2 and vice versa.
Mike.