[Gllug] a more intelligent shell

[John G Walker]

Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 8:40:53 PM, Nix wrote:

> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Richard Jones wrote:
>> Does zsh still have the funny "Sun keyboard fix" hack?  On older Sun
>> keyboards, ` (back quote) and the return key were close together such
>> that inevitably from time to time you'd type a command with an
>> extraneous back quote at the end.  zsh could be configured to
>> automatically remove it.

> Old features never die. From the zshoptions manpage:

>    SUN_KEYBOARD_HACK (-L)
>        If a line ends with a backquote, and there are an odd number of
>        backquotes on the line, ignore the trailing backquote.  This is
>        useful on some keyboards where the return key is too small, and
>        the backquote key lies annoyingly close to it.

Lovely! A feature designed to fit the real world. Once upon a time I
thought that all program features would be like this. But sadly...

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All the best,
 John

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