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1. Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:00:23 JST Julia Evans

   entering text in the terminal is complicated https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/07/08/readline/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:00:19 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     @b0rk I’ve been coding for 40 years. I still learn new things every day. And forget other ones every day. We’re people, not books.

   • Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:00:21 JST Julia Evans

     in reply to

     also someone elsewhere left a comment like "I CAN’T BELIEVE IT TOOK HER 15 YEARS TO LEARN BASIC READLINE COMMANDS". those comments are very silly and I'm going to keep writing “it took me 15 years to learn this basic thing" forever because I think it's important for people to know that it's normal to take a long time to learn basic things

   • Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:00:22 JST Julia Evans

     in reply to

     someone in the replies elsewhere pointed out that Ctrl+J = 10 in the ASCII table = LF ("line feed") = Enter (because J is the 10th letter of the alphabet)

     so Ctrl+J is the same as pressing enter

     which I don't have any practical use for but is kind of cool

     (edit: some corrections in this reply: https://pgh.social/@ben/112752235264922484)

     Aral Balkan repeated this.