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 1Mvylj-0004as-Ny for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:35:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41F38E0484; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E75E0D7E for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932E6B4774 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:35:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.184 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.184 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.585, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Of68gaEcT+uu for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6684667FDB for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MvylS-0004F0-VX for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:35:02 +0200 Received: from athedsl-375048.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.17.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:35:02 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-375048.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:35:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:34:37 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <0c7f33f17eed01b23a2d825e8ca63371@localhost> <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-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-375048.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090923 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: <20091008193301.4cd6baf5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5e1b6c47-947b-4c98-8000-14e7b752e565 X-Archives-Hash: 7d249734ad8c893b0f92952ac7b23ef7 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.