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.
next prev 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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