[MlMt] Debugging custom keystrokes (another newbie question)

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.net
Mon Nov 6 09:44:33 EST 2017


On 6 Nov 2017, at 7:54, David Ledger wrote:

> On 6 Nov 2017, at 10:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 4 Nov 2017, at 19:59, Robert Goldman wrote:
>>
>>> Follow-up questions:
>>
>> I *think* most of your questions are answered 
>> [here](https://manual.mailmate-app.com/custom_key_bindings.html#key-bindings-in-mailmate).
>>
>>> 2. Would it be possible to add a log entry if MailMate does not find 
>>> a file?
>>
>> I've added this.
>>
>>> 3. Are there any characters forbidden in filenames?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Benny
>
> ‘/‘ is to be avoided in filenames in Unix systems generally. 
> Having worked with Unix since (just) before the Mac I’ve never tried 
> using it with OSX. It may (or may not) work, but it’s a low-level 
> fiddle-around if it does and could break. Similarly I avoid ‘:’ as 
> that used to be the pathname separator pre-OSX, even though it 
> wasn’t as visible to users. There used to be a compatibility 
> fiddle-around for that, but Apple may have dropped that by now.
>

Thanks.  I was just using hyphen (-), because I'm an old school lisp 
programmer, so hyphen is the way I say underscore ;-)

Best,
r


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