From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvySY-0002u3-Mc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:15:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30EFCE0CBC; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3759E0CBC for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so1403757bwz.34 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:15:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=nXbW5wrju+OBfIjsNX8FIyMa2BUSLOkUgFuQGVMXpqQ=; b=Wi7z0wrphh4RDZvFTnr2nd47MUbW7M8nEK/haRWr6FGKZHNVhkZLIeU09THsR7dCXY +GuLP7uPxG2UbE5XSlMie1Lqv6u4YXNR0v5LbdVf+hsaIybxZdA/QZTYmw+08Wy9+p8c BThhE0KUtvF822J1dbZe39tUPiwgC8V33Gc6k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=g6TmJX+u8CI7TGzIO53gsyN8ZXgHFNzL1U17lcQAzr3H1FLMVDa99l0JrnlflCZq4M dJpiNWLW9+wVJ5SnhMoXIETCTSmIh3W8KBfhco0u3QAT4ZGlKm+oQhvJFM14z9rUgkPy uN/zicPZwMi1FSDeHswHL+l2Le2r4QwK6+r6I= Received: by 10.102.165.11 with SMTP id n11mr695494mue.5.1255029328081; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y37sm781563mug.4.2009.10.08.12.15.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:15:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:14:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <20091008193301.4cd6baf5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091008193301.4cd6baf5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910082114.26410.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c8d8c8aa-a150-47f6-87ae-b1eb85b102c0 X-Archives-Hash: f59b2ae3893c40cda8f8cdeda8f1f412 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