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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: FIXED 3D
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:14:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910082114.26410.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091008193301.4cd6baf5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
> 
> But nowhere near as clear.

And it's quicker to type "$(" - muscle memory - than to do the whole hunt-
peek-peck thing to find the ` key - I can't touch type it, have to *look* for 
it

:-)
 
> > Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`).  It's usually the key
> > above TAB and to the left of 1.
> 
> I rest my case :)
> 
> Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with
> backticks.

That's neat. But,

please provide an example where an actual sane human would actually use it. 
Coz I can't think of one... 

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-08 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 16:49 [gentoo-user] Broken 3D James
2009-10-07 19:26 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-10-07 19:30 ` [gentoo-user] " James Ausmus
2009-10-07 21:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-08  3:38 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-08 15:28   ` [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D James
2009-10-08 15:35     ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-08 15:53       ` James
2009-10-08 15:54     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-08 18:33       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-08 19:14         ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-10-08 19:19           ` James Ausmus
2009-10-08 19:27             ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-08 20:02               ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-08 20:09                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-09 16:12           ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-08 19:34         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-08 21:21           ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-08 22:43         ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-09  2:22         ` Jonathan Callen
2009-10-09  2:56           ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-09  8:13           ` Neil Bothwick

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