Comments on: irssi word completion http://crschmidt.net/blog/94/irssi-word-completion/ Ramblings of a GIS Hacker Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:58:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Philip Newton http://crschmidt.net/blog/94/irssi-word-completion/#comment-3470 Philip Newton Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:35:05 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/94/irssi-word-completion/#comment-3470 <p>You know, I'm a bit disappointed that this blog entry contains the same editing problem common to some less techy computer magazines I read -- specifically, using "smart" quotes in code. Or did you really use 66-99 quotes around the arguments to perl and echo?</p> <p>(A related problem is using ligatures in constant-width code so you have variables called $file but with "fi" as a ligature, which (a) looks really odd in monospace type and (b) most likely doesn't work if you used the ligature in real life.)</p> You know, I’m a bit disappointed that this blog entry contains the same editing problem common to some less techy computer magazines I read — specifically, using “smart” quotes in code. Or did you really use 66-99 quotes around the arguments to perl and echo?

(A related problem is using ligatures in constant-width code so you have variables called $file but with “fi” as a ligature, which (a) looks really odd in monospace type and (b) most likely doesn’t work if you used the ligature in real life.)

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