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bayindirhyesterday at 2:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

Looked so backwards to me, too. However, I decided to give it a go, anyway. Now, I have some scripts and small commands which start with a comma, and it looks neat and time saving.

Yes, I can do path ordering to override usual commands. However, having a set of odd-job scripts which start with a comma gives a nice namespacing capability alongside a well narrowed-down tab-completion experience.

While it's not the neatest thing around, it works surprisingly well.

Another idea which looks useless until you start using is text expanders (i.e.: Espanso and TextExpander).


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mathfailureyesterday at 2:50 PM

I never knew that what I've known as 'hotstrings' (since the AutoHotKey days) other sometimes also call 'text expanders'.

xbryanxyesterday at 2:34 PM

Love Alfred Snippets for this same text expander need.

aschlayesterday at 5:57 PM

The irony in the number of extra commas you've used in this comment...

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