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I really wish there were a "lexical space" (spacebar) and "semantic space" (shift-space or some other control). Use something less obtrusive for the semantic sp
by kortex 7y ago
I really wish there were a "lexical space" (spacebar) and "semantic space" (shift-space or some other control). Use something less obtrusive for the semantic space than - or _, like the interpunct ·. It breaks visually/semantically but is lexically part of the same string.
this·is·variable·one
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one two three
Now I just use an ergodox ez (qmk-driven) keyboard with _ in an easy spot and snake_case everything but people says it's "ugly" or some bs (camelCase, especially with initialisms, drives me nuts).
- Izkata 7y agoSpace (%20) and non-breaking space (%A0). People do somehow type the second one into web forms regularly enough (resulting in strange error messages) that those two hex codes are embedded in my brain.
- DonHopkins 7y agoI like to put U+00AD aka aka ­ invisible soft hyphens into my long file names and variable names, so they break correctly when displayed in formatted text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen MargaretAreYouGrievingOverGoldengroveUnleavingLeavesLikeTheThingsOfManYouWithYourFreshThoughtsCareForCanYouAhAsTheHeartGrowsOlderItWillComeToSuchSightsColderByAndByNorSpareASighThoughWorldsOfWanwoodLeafmealLieAndYetYouWillWeepAndKnowWhyNowNoMatterChildTheNameSorrowsSpringsAreTheSameNorMouthHadNoNorMindExpressedWhatHeartHeardOfGhostGuessedItIsTheBlightManWasBornForItIsMargaretYouMournFor.txt
- kortex 7y agoNeat! I'm gonna try both of these in my workflow.