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> I'm ashamed to admit I often wonder about this when playingˆHˆHˆHˆHˆHˆHˆH my daughter plays with myˆHˆH her Duplo train. nice insider joke :) https://en.m.w
by Eduard 3y ago
> I'm ashamed to admit I often wonder about this when playingˆHˆHˆHˆHˆHˆHˆH my daughter plays with myˆHˆH her Duplo train.
nice insider joke :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_control_characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_control_characters
- guitarlimeo 3y agoIndeed, I liked that as well
- zik 3y ago^H used to be a common idiom back in the usenet news days
- sytringy05 3y agoIt’s from the original borne / korn shell in Unix. Ctrl H was backspace, but the pc keyboards would send a different control character. you often had to map the backspace on the pc keyboard to make it work properly. Set -o or something like that.
- euroderf 3y agoAnd then it got even worse when you mixed in X Windows. "Delete" or something.
- okamiueru 3y agoThanks for explaining it.