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Specifying file paths (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't really watch Star Wars. I'm a more of a Trekkie gal.

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See, you can separate files both ways as long as it's logical

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Specifying paths with - would be its own special brand of hell.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Also the internet belongs on the left.

And really, Linux/macos could be reduced to "Unix" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg

[–] [email protected] 28 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

And BSD. It's really just Windows vs. literally everything. Or is there anything else that uses backslashes?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago

CP/M

Which in this context is named hilariously.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Typical windows behavior

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I might be wrong, but I think you still can't use a ':' in a filename in macOS. If I recall correctly it will let you do it and show it in Finder, but actually replace it with a '-'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I mean literally… example.com**/**index.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

If you know what a nordic keyboard layout looks like, you'd probably prefer backslash. Since I moved to Linux a year ago I've been struggling to find the easiest way to forward slash. Shift + 7? Or numpad / with my right pinky?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Get a macro pad and configure one button to type a forward slash.

How do you type URLs using that keyboard layout?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Shift+7 feels wrong for some reason, so I currently tend to just send my pinky on a kamikaze mission towards the numpad hoping I hit /. Sometimes I hit numlock, sometimes I hit *.
Even if I made a compose key "shortcut" via ~/.XCompose it'd still be more work than what I'm doing already.

Macro pad could be a solution, I have considered it beforehand for other purposes tbh

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Both works fine in Windows tho?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Used to not

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Times change. You used to not be able to run Linux in Windows, but you can do that too.