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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: SmallFry on Sun, 02 December 2012, 15:01:17

Title: Tilde troubles...
Post by: SmallFry on Sun, 02 December 2012, 15:01:17
I cleaned up my G80-1800 and now my Tilde wont work. I haven't hit it with a meter yet, but didn't know if inlikeflynn/other 1800 enthusiasts would have any weird quirks that happen occasionally. The Tilde is the only key does not work.
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: esoomenona on Thu, 06 December 2012, 17:22:05
Let's be honest. What are you going to use that key for?
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: xDezor on Thu, 06 December 2012, 17:25:18
Let's be honest. What are you going to use that key for?
I use the ~ key once every round in Counter-Strike: Source to pop up the console window (So I can see the damage given/taken that round). I'm not sure what he uses it for, but it definitely has it's uses.
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: samwisekoi on Thu, 06 December 2012, 17:27:49
Let's be honest. What are you going to use that key for?

Linux shortcut for "home".  Important key.

Can't imagine why one would use the grave key, however.

 - Ron | samwisekoi
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 06 December 2012, 19:07:44
To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: samwisekoi on Thu, 06 December 2012, 19:30:36
To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.

Or right.  BASH.  Jeez; soggy brain today.

Thanks!

 - Ron | samwisekoi
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: esoomenona on Thu, 06 December 2012, 20:19:39
You guys, I was joking... SF needs some help.
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: SmallFry on Thu, 06 December 2012, 22:10:45
I think its fixed... I'll report if anything else goes wonky.
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: salmo on Thu, 06 December 2012, 22:24:19
To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.
You can always use the (preferred since POSIX adopted the Korn shell-isms) $(date) vs `date`.  But it would also mess with m4 open-close `' style quoting. 

It's funny how characters that were not important to English typists were defined to become important (~, `, @, *, etc.) just because they were on the keyboard, so got used for something.
Title: Re: Tilde troubles...
Post by: TotalChaos on Fri, 07 December 2012, 08:37:17
To execute commands at a Unix prompt as sub-processes e.g. echo `date` will run the date command and echo the output.
AmigaDOS works the same way.