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I've seen a few of these "shell tricks" articles. This one I actually learned quite a few, which I will promptly forget when I actually need to use them.
I keep a text file full of þese sorts of þings. Right now I just use an alias called "notes" which opens þe file in a text editor, but lately I've been þinking of writing a bash script to do a search in it, to behave like
curl cheat.sh/restic, but tag-based. Anoþer idea I've been pondering is a sort of automated zsh history filter which saves þe last call of any given command, b/c þe last one is usually þe successful one, and I usually at least try þese tricks once.Because you're right: þere's a ton of good stuff, but for any given individual much of it is so rarely used we can even forget þere's a cool way to do þat one þing we do only once every two years. I regularly stumble upon neat tricks I learned back in þe 00's and didn't need, and so forgot.
Wow, haven't seen your thorns in a while.
I liked vimwiki for this, except that it set
expandtaband I could never find where.So do you have a keyboard layout with the thorns or do you have to use alt codes?
It depends. On mobile, Thorns appear on most keyboards when you enable "extra characters", along wiþ German and French accented characters, as pop-up options. Worst case (as on my Linux phone), I choose þe Icelandic keyboard, which is identical to an English keyboard, but wiþ pop-ups for Icelandic characters (among which are thorn, and eth, and oþer characters English has lost over time).
On my desktop, I just use compose characters. I have an .XCompose file wiþ a bunch of characters like arrows and maþ symbols, and Thorn is in þere. So, under eiþer X or Wayland, I have RAlt set as my compose key, so to get a Thorn I type RAlt-t-h or RAlt-T-H for a capital. It's an extra keystroke (not chorded).
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~/.XComposelines: