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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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Backslash for subdirectories is unintuitive.
Change my mind!
It's clearly only meant as an escape character. Every other usecase should be forbidden. Oh, that little shrug emote thing is fine tho.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Better than RISC OS paths that use colons, and far better than VMS paths that look like this
DENVER::DKA100:[RD.PROJECTS.SAMBA]SETUP.COM;15The backslash is a descending line showing that the subdirectory is under the parent directory, as it would be in a tree view.
If that's the case we should all be using ┖
That's a good one 🕊️
So they come together like this:
Also, with a little imagination, if you interpret it as a fraction, you'd have the topdir as a common denominator like this:
You would also have to read it from right to left for it to make sense though:
But considering this approach, when writing the parts of the fraction below each other, the topdir is below the subdir (like a real tree growing from the ground lol). The "subdir is under topdir" analogy gets lost, which is my main problem with the backslash approach:
=>
it's the main reason i prefer ANSI keyboards.