Simon B. Støvring on Nostr: I want my terminal to automatically format long commands into multiple lines with ...
I want my terminal to automatically format long commands into multiple lines with trailing backslashes. It should kick in when I paste a command and also while I’m typing. Long one-liners are just hard to read.
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