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
next prev parent 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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