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lwallach

Yeah, I think this would really help distinguish things better in the tag cloud. It's odd because when you edit tags, RTM inserts commas, but since spaces are delimeters, why insert those?

I can see where capitalization may get a bit hairy, though. I mean on the one hand you want to be able to capitalize a propper name, but what happens when you tag something with the lowercase version? Should you be able to have two distinct tags where they only difference is the capitalization? Probably not, so you would have to record the capitalization that the user pics, but then do conversions for all these different areas where tags are used. Right now, RTM just needs to convert them once - when you input them, and then they don't need to worry about caps.

Using spaces might requite some trickiness passing those spaces in a url-encoded manner, but I'm not sure.

In any case, both of these enhancements would be welcome!

Posted at 7:50pm on November 12, 2007

You can use hyphens for now, like physical-science-1b.
Blogging says it's cool, clean, and pretty!

Or the old fashioned underline might work better for you =D
As Iwallach said, it adds some implications we're not sure RTM's crew is willing to undertake. I'm yet to understand why they won't let us use the most common symbols in tags!

Posted at 1:42am on November 13, 2007

@bzpilman: I actually found the "Lists" feature to do more easily what I was trying to do with tags, but my suggestion still applies. Next time I want to use spaces, I'll remember the hyphens, though; thanks!

PS
Am I the only one here not yet pro? :P Just kidding!

Posted at 1:53am on November 13, 2007

jkratz

I'd second supporting case and spaces. I wish more places that supported tagging would do this instead of only single word tags or requiring using underscores, etc. to emulate spaces. Simply require separating tags with a comma when you enter them and this is easy.

Posted at 3:59pm on February 20, 2008

Resuscitating this just to throw my support behind this request. The inability to use spaces was a little surprising, but I didn't think it would be a deal-breaker as my work-around was to use CamelCase. But no Caps?? that leaves (ugh) hyphens and underscores to separate words.

Spaces I can understand, as they can be cumbersome from a programming standpoint to include, but caps rarely is.

I agree that if caps were adopted (fingers crossed!), that the caps should just be a user-display feature, and that case-sensitivity would not be factor in determining whether a tag was unique. (eg @computer equals @COMPUter).

Posted at 11:41pm on September 29, 2008

dme

Maybe it's my inner geek, bit (whoops, I mean but) I really like having IgnoreCase as an option in vim and I'd love it here too.

So the rules are: maintain caSe as entered.

Searches will ignore or observe case depending on the value of IgnoreCase.

CamelCase isn't all that GeeKy today.

Posted at 11:55pm on September 30, 2008