[Zope] squishdot syntax

Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:08:56 -0400 (EDT)


Scott Lewis writes:
>as readers of that webpage know, the abbreviation of slashdot is /. i 
>tried to come up with a similar abbreviation for squishdot, but got 
>stumped from start: where is the squish key? i started to just use 
>~. no, how about *.? #.?

In the Jargon File, one name for '#' is 'splat', which is similiar to
'squish'. (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/ASCII.html)
So, #. is one possibility.  *. is another, notionally because an
asterisk may resemble a squished bug.  Or, change the name to BangDot
and use !. as the short form.  

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