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Re:Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2... by lousyd on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:53PM (#22305025)
Ugh. Why braces ( { } )? That's the biggest tiny pain of using awk. It's an odd stretch for my fingers to type them and I have to look down to be sure I hit them right.
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Re:Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2... by adrianN on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:00AM (#22305939)
Use one of the many tools for customizing your keyboard layout. {} are Alt+J and Alt+K for me.
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Re:Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2... by samatman on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @10:21PM (#22305436)
braces are pretty well built into my muscle memory at this point, but I actually agree with you aesthetically, I would prefer square brackets `fex [1:3,5]`. I presume it's because of awk <shrug>

Great tool though

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