[panqueca]

> Hyphen vs underscore in filenames and directory names?

> Originally, when I stopped using Windows back in about 1998, I was used to using spaces between words in filenames and directories. As I progressed into the world of Linux and BSD, I changed all spaces to underscores, but since I have done (and still do) a lot of web development I eventually settled on hyphens. I not only think it looks better, but the fact is that search engines interpret hyphens in file and directory names as spaces between words. Underscores are usually not recognized, and as such, their presence can negatively affect search engine optimization. Even though files in my home directory are my private files and not something I put out on the web, I have just settled on using hyphens everywhere.

I couldn't agree more. It's so practice to use hyphens when navigating on terminal that i think it should be a standard. It's even better than pressing <SHIFT-KEY> every time to select an underscored filename or <BACKSLASH-KEY> for spaces. Duh

[rauhl]

That’s a minor thing I dig about Lisps: variables can be named foo-bar-baz, with nary a shift to type.