writing about tab completion in the shell is reminding me of how much I rely on being able to tab complete from the *middle* of a filename in fish
like if the file starts with a weird character -- no problem! I can just type some characters from the middle and press 'Tab’
Julia Evans
npub1ym…nlm9y
2025-05-07 17:53:24 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…fwgr
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wss://relay.mostr.pubPublished at
2025-05-07 17:53:24 UTCEvent JSON
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