Re: do not truncate long filenames beginning with dot

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:26:21 -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:15:45PM -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:41:23PM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 04:50:21AM -0400, Dennis New wrote:
> > > > > Sometimes, when trying to save a document with long
> > > > > filenames, the truncated default save-as filename will start
> > > > > with a dot. (Ie. a hidden file.) This behaviour should
> > > > > change. Perhaps truncate the end of the filename instead (and
> > > > > preserve the file extension)?
> > > > 
> > > > Do you have an example where this happens? I see that it can
> > > > happen with URLs like http://dillo.org/bla/.blub
> > > > Is this the case where you are seeing the issue or do you get it
> > > > with other types of URLs as well?
> > > 
> > >   I was to ask the same question days ago (yes I reviewed the
> > > code to make a quick patch and it cuts starting from the end). An
> > > example would be clarifying.
> > 
> > If we don't get any more feedback, I'd just replace dots with
> > underscores as well. What do you think?
> 
>   That was one of the first things I considered, but thought that
> when saving a ".config" file it was good to keep the name. I'd like
> to know the real problem the user had.

The problem is with very long filenames, such as:

http://dennisn.dyndns.org/guest/pubstuff/dillo.long.file.name-0.69_r1337.file.123456789012345678901234567890123.txt

Dillo seems to truncate with just the last 64 chars. So, in this
example, the save-as filename would be saved as a hidden file
".file.name-....txt".

Perhaps a better solution would be to truncate the *middle* of the
filename, thus preserving the beginning and file extension?