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Whats your go-to naming conventions?

As far as I know there are these;

  • Camel case = coolFileName
  • Snake case = cool_file_name
  • Kebab case = cool-file-name
  • Pascal case = CoolFileName
  • Dot notation = cool.file.name
  • Flat case = coolfilename
  • Screaming case = COOLFILENAME

Personally I prefer the kebab/dot conventions simply because they allow for easy “navigation” with (ctrl+arrow keys) between each part. What are your preferences when it comes to this? Did I miss any schemes?

No1 ,
@No1@aussie.zone avatar

IT’S

COOLFILE.NAM

THERE IS ONLY 8.3 AND THERE IS ONLY UPPERCASE

erwan ,

FILEID.DIZ

unknowing8343 ,

I am a fan of Python’s or Rust’s official conventions.

For package names, tho, I don’t get why this-is-used over this_clearly_better_system, as I would expect a double click to select_the_whole_thing, whereas it does-not-happen-here.

Sunny OP ,

While i do agree, snake looks a lot better too. I just wish it was possible to navigate through each parts of the word more easily with ctrl+arrow. That would make it the superiour choice imo.

ouch ,

Does alt+arrow work in your terminal?

Sunny OP ,

yeah

MyNameIsRichard ,
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

Kebab case with Pascal case in the usual places. I’d change to all kebab case but the muscle memory of typing Documents would nearly kill me.

Hupf ,
@Hupf@feddit.org avatar

COOLFI~1.AME

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org avatar

10 PRINT "FARTS"
20 GOTO 10

harsh3466 ,

Man I miss basic.

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org avatar

https://www.freebasic.net/

It's more like QBasic dialect, but it's still actively maintained. It can generate binaries and everything for modern machines.

UnbalancedFox ,

Im dead! MS-DOS vibes

Fizz ,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

25% Camel case, 25% Pascal and 50% of the time flatcase. It drives me insane when I try and autocomplete a folder only to realise it was Downloads instead of downloads. I keep telling myself i will go through and make it all flatcase but I put it off because i tell myself i will rebuild my computer next week every week.

imecth , (edited )

Never thought about making the home folders flatcase, thanks, takes all of 2 minutes btw.
If anybody else wants to do it, remember to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs with your new flatcase folders.

possiblylinux127 ,

My file

Landless2029 ,

Rfc3389 plus kebab case for many things

2024-09-01_lname-fname-resume.pdf

quantenzitrone ,
@quantenzitrone@lemmings.world avatar

How about “cool file name”?

All my systems use modern file systems that are case sensitive and can contain any character except / and `

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

True. Linux, Android, Windows all have no problems

Using dots in a file though…

Monstera ,

Using commands on that is still more annoying, so no way

quantenzitrone ,
@quantenzitrone@lemmings.world avatar

not really

You can easily escape spaces with `` and my modern shell (fish) suggests and completes filenames for me anyway, so i don’t have to type more than the first word in more than 90% of cases.

ouch ,

Typing in those cases instead of _ is super annoying.

In my keyboard layout backspace is behind altgr.

jjjalljs ,

Snake case, usually. Some perhaps unfounded fear that something will blow up on a dash in a file name kicking around. Or I’ll do a weird typo/premature enter and part of the file name will be treated like a -flag of some sort.

that_leaflet ,
@that_leaflet@lemmy.world avatar

Snake case.

  • Starts with a lowercase, good for shell autocompletion
  • No spaces, so no worrying about spaces in shell commands
  • ’_’ is better than ‘-’ because it shows the spaces between words more clearly
cygnus ,
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Counterpoint: you have to use Shift a lot

corsicanguppy ,

He probably uses vi. A few hundred more shift-key presses won’t stand out.

ouch ,

kdd

k4j8 ,

For this reason, I use kebab case for directories. But because I agree underscores show spaces better, I use snake case for files.

eruchitanda ,
@eruchitanda@lemmy.world avatar

Unless I can’t, Kebab.

No need to hold Shift.

data1701d ,
@data1701d@startrek.website avatar

I do kebab with underscores.

MutilationWave ,

Wouldn’t that be snake?

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

Snake if writing in python

Camel if writing in PowerShell

I tend to stick with what the language wants me to use.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve got a personal convention that file names get snake case, directory names get Pascal case.

harsh3466 ,

Depending on the file it’s either dot notation or flat case.

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