Is there an example for a shell or computing accessibility culture aspiring a shell with more special characters and if so what is it?
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I was always a bit frustrated from the lack of characters in modern computer systems such as, from what I know:
* A *global template literal character* for which the closest character today is a backtick (`
Since the dawn of Unix and Linux, was there ever a discourse/culture about such a thing? What's worth reading? At least a name of a concept.
``)
* A *global quote character*, for which the closest character today is a single quote mark ('
) or a double quote mark ("
)
* A *global escaping character* for which the closest character today is backslash (\
)
* *A global line break character*, for which the closest character today is a LF
or CR
* Thinking about it, the entire regex language, on all its dialects, could have its own character system
I personally believe that such characters could make computing more accessible and at least intuitively would like to experiment in working this way.
I am aware that this would likely require to at least extend the QWERTY keyboard format and manufacture larger keyboards which I don't think will happen in the next 10 years, but I still want to ask on the **software side**:
Is there an example for a shell or computing accessibility culture aspiring a (Unix like) shell with more special characters and if so what is it?Since the dawn of Unix and Linux, was there ever a discourse/culture about such a thing? What's worth reading? At least a name of a concept.
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Mar 11, 2022, 04:05 PM
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