Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Using ~ as a shortcut for home directory...

I just stumbled on the question why tilde (~) is used as a shortcut for home directory on Unix. It's very interesting since it never occurred to me to ask this question? :)

Then, there are lot more questions like that one on StackExchange, here is a selection of some interesting ones (to me at least):
And, for the end, here is why vi uses hjkl for cursor movement.

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