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From: tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards)
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Subject: Re: easy suggestion for EZ
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 28-Jan-91 Re: easy suggestion for EZ
Gary Keim (1346+0)

> Are these long filenames present even when editing files under your home
> directory?  Here a tilde (~) is used to represent my home directory. 
> That makes the icon string reasonable for my most common editing tasks.  

For me, I get long file names because we edit our source code in a
different account than our user id, ~source.  At the moment, I see one
of my Ez windows reads
	---user/source/src/northcalc/nc_graf.c
Yes, a ~ appears when I'm in my home account, but even then, the above
file name would appear as
	~/src/northcalc/nc_graf.c
which I consider longer than I want.

I like Bill Janssen's idea of having a long name for the title bar and a
short name for the icon.  (I have nothing against long names when
there's space for them, but when I iconify the window, I'm doing so to
minimize the amount of screen real estate that window uses.)

   - Anthony