[Alexandria-list] What is supposed to be the contents of a yaml file in Alexandria

[L.C. Karssen]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 22:05 +0000, Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
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> "L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
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> > Another thing I noticed is that I have several yaml files that start
> > with a - (dash). This makes using tools like grep impossible. Are
> > these files there for a reason?
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> Yep, this is an annoyance I've noticed before. When a book doesn't have
> an ISBN, it's 'ident' or identifier, is generated by taking the
> hash-code of its title (a number generated from the title string,
> called a hash-code because it's often used in hashtables). Sometimes
> this number is negative. The YAML filename uses the 'ident', so this
> sometimes results in filenames beginning with a '-'.

Would it be a good idea to prefix all yaml files with 'alex' or even
'alexandria' so that the minus doesn't really matter any more?


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