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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 (` ``) * 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.
Asked by Lahor (123 rep)
Mar 11, 2022, 04:05 PM
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