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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: FIXED 3D
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:34:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hales8$aod$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091008193301.4cd6baf5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On 10/08/2009 09:33 PM, 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.
>
>> Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`).  It's usually the key
>> above TAB and to the left of 1.
>
> I rest my case :)

Why?  It's one single key.  Easy to remember.  Nothing is easier than 
one key instead of needing shift+4-shift+9 to produce "$(" :P


> Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with
> backticks.

You can, but that is awkward (echo `echo \`echo \\\`ls\\\`\``).  But for 
a single, not-nested command, `` is lighting fast to type.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-08 19:35 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
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 [this message]
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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