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Re:A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @09:31AM (#49272138)
This article taught me about alt-. and it's probably going to become my new favorite fish shortcut: if I type a portion of a word (for example an ssh hostname), hitting alt-. searches all previous arguments and autofills the entire username+hostname at that position. Seems much more powerful than bash's implementation. (and allows you to go forward/backward with alt+arrow keys if you overshoot it)
Surely a lot of the load can be attributed to AI hallucinated submissions, but even then those need to somehow be reviewed on the off-chance that it's a real and important vulnerability - which would have usually been done by the human reporter in the past :)
At least on Android, Nintype has a few annoying bugs now and has gotten terribly slow. But it's an incredible idea and I wish it would get revived by someone - I still use it despite the bugs, but I need to switch over to Gboard sometimes.