Monster 0.8 + Tutorial

[Charles D Hixson]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Nicolay Korslund wrote:
>> Anders F Björklund Wrote:
>>
>>> Nicolay Korslund wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hmm, that's true. Looks like the .m extension is also used by Maple,
>>>> Mathematica and Objective-C, to name a few. I think I'll switch to
>>>> the much less occupied .mo.
>>> Gettext uses .mo for locale translations, but maybe that's still "less".
>>
>> You are right, but I don't think that will be as much of a problem 
>> though.
>>
>> I guess the biggest issue with shared file extensions is on Windows 
>> and other
>> GUI-based systems where users expect to open common file types by double
>> clicking on them, or in other cases where it's easy to confuse what 
>> kind of file
>> you're dealing with. Like if you have a year-old directory called 
>> all-math-scripts/
>> and you're a regular user of Matlab, Mathematica and Maple - I 
>> wouldn't want
>> to be that person :-)
> 
> Well the other thing is code editors.  They often decide which mode to 
> use based on file extension.  I don't do anything with gettext mo files, 
> but a quick check reveals there is indeed an "mo-mode" for emacs meant 
> for editing those gettext files.  So I'd avoid .mo too if I were you.
> 
> --bb
How about .mn?  Anything use that?  Or .mon or .mns?  It 
should be possible to come up with something that's 
essentially unique within three letters...if not, well ... mnstr?