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can I get a W in the chat????

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

W! What was the commit for?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

You know it's a 3 character documentation change.

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Added support for a new DNS provider via dietpi's DNS wizard :^)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We need to know!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is ^[ here? Do you literally type that I to the keyboard? Or is it the ANSI escape sequence for Ctrl or something.

I hate whenever I see something binded to the square braces, does not work properly for qwerty or is at least impractical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ctrl-[ is escape in ASCII (not specifically ANSI/VT100/etc), and Ctrl is sometimes abbreviated as ^.

I don't know the exact history of why this is a thing that comes up with vi often. My guess is that ESC on the ADM-3a terminal that vi originally targeted influenced it. On ADM-3a, ESC is where tab is on a PC-101 keyboard, a comfy key to hit while touch typing. When later terminals started to move ESC a couple of rows up it was more ergonomic to hit ctrl-[ instead.

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WWWWhy a W?

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