The name
The name portion of the
K configuration
command immediately follows the K. Whitespace between
the K and the
name is
optional:
K name type args ↑ optional whitespace
The name must begin with a letter or digit and can contain only letters, digits, and the underscore character:
K local_hosts ← good K $andcents ← bad
The case of the letters in
name does not matter.
All names are converted to lowercase before they are
stored:
K LOCAL_Hosts
K local_hosts ← the sameIf you begin a name with a
bad character, the following error will be printed
and that K line
will be ignored:
configfile: line num: readcf: config K line: no map name
If a bad character appears in the middle of a name,
the part preceding the bad character will be taken
as the name, and the part
following the bad character will be taken as the
type. For example, the
name
me@home will produce this
error:
configfile: line num: readcf: map me: class home not available
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