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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2001 03:11:50 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ALT-<sp> (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argumen)
Message-ID:  <20011003031149.B17924@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200110022357.f92NvnS08486@thistle.bogs.org>
References:  <20011003020504.A16924@hades.hell.gr> <200110022357.f92NvnS08486@thistle.bogs.org>

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Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what would be an instance where you have
> wanted a space in a filename and wouldn't have been satisfied with
> 0xa0 instead of 0x20?

All of them.  Space is so conveniently placed under the tip of my thumb.
To type 0xa0 I would hav to use exotic keystroke combos like:

	Left_Alt + Num_1 + Num_6 + Num_0

and that's a real pain to type.

-giorgos


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