[BRLTTY] Contraction patch: Limeade, grapeade

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:00:24AM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> >- Use the .patch or .diff or no extension at all, not .txt.
> 
> Why? This is Linux, where filename extensions are next to ignored.

Correct, but may help a human: 
ls -l ueb.txt
hmm, I wonder what this file is. I either run file <ueb.txt> or I cat
ueb.txt, and look at the lines to determine it's a "patch" file. Where
as if you simpley put .diff or .patch it may help a human determine what
exactly the files use is.

It's also neater and doesn't hurt. Why does linux use .conf then for
config files? And also, you don't require as I said, you could just have
"ueb", but a file extention, can only benefit!

> 
> One place where they are not ignored is Emacs, where using the .patch suffix 
> results in the buffer's being read-only. This is not good as I have to 
> remove a hunk that updates my Alva driver the way I want it. I doubt the 
> driver's author would want to do it my way instead of his way.

Uh that's strange, emacs doesn't seem to do that when I open emacs
<file.patch> what happens with .patch extention?
No extention is also okay, but txt is slightly missleading.