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?

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    10·
    2 months ago

    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@fedia.io
      6·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • Amroth@feddit.it
      5·
      2 months ago

      I do the flatcase in my machines too, but it stopped being such big a nuisance to me when I moved to ZSH - it can autocomplete case-insensitively.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        2·
        2 months ago

        Is zsh a terminal or a language like bash? I don’t get what it is from reading descriptions

        • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtfEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Zsh is a shell like bash that supports shell scripting like bash (though with some syntactical differences). It’s a bit more like ksh than bash, but anyone familiar with bash will have no problems with zsh.

          You can check out oh-my-zsh for an accessible preconfigured version of it (though I’d suggest installing via your package manager rather than the script on their website). I like the jreese theme.