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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by lou1306 on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:57AM (#26272728)
Not only Firefox. Cmd-/ is also a very common "toggle line comment" shortcut. I think it's the default on Sublime and IntelliJ, and any editor that offers a "Sublime compatible" preset (like VS code) imitate that. Of course, such a shortcut broken out-of-the-box for any keyboard layout that lacks a / key.
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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by jacobolus on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:00AM (#26272749)
Yeah, Sublime copied this shortcut (like most of its features) from TextMate, and it has since spread widely.

Amusingly, TextMate's author and many early users were European programmers with US-ANSI keyboards (because the various European layouts are just too painful for writing code in ASCII-based programming languages).

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