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^D is the old school way of writing it; you'd see it so much you'd only ever once be confused about it, generally in the very first few days you were learning t
by whatever_dude 10y ago
^D is the old school way of writing it; you'd see it so much you'd only ever once be confused about it, generally in the very first few days you were learning to use a computer.
It's never used anymore, I suppose, except for the old school people who still have enough muscular memory built up to write it that way. I know I do; I learned it from some computer magazine in the 80's and have a hard time letting go.
- vertex-four 10y agoIt's used when talking about text editors a fair bit.
- jonknee 10y agoMore than just text editors, it is used system wide in OS X menus to describe the available shortcuts.
- breadbox 10y agoI dunno if I'd say it was never used anymore. Try running `cat` (to bring up a basic termainal input) and type various control keys. Anything that isn't interpreted by the tty is probably displayed using caret notation.
- saghm 10y ago> It's never used anymore, I suppose, except for the old school people who still have enough muscular memory built up to write it that way. I know I do; I learned it from some computer magazine in the 80's and have a hard time letting go. I was born after the 80s, and I use that shorthand (although I suppose this probably says more about me than it does about the shorthand itself). I didn't even understand the original comment until I read through the whole thing because I mentally read it as "Ctrl+D"