If you have any suggestions or criticisms, feel free to comment them.

Being plain text, it’s much easier to read on a wide screen, or on something without line wrapping.

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know how this would be useful to someone reading the cheat sheet, but here’s something interesting I just indirectly found out while skimming it through:

    Ctrl+D does the same thing as ENTER, except the latter additionally sends the end-of-line character to the reader while the former sends nothing;
    as is the case for shells or interactive programs like the Python REPL, Ctrl+D causes them to terminate only because it sends a string that is 0 characters long, and 0-size reads are universally interpreted as files reaching the end.

    To test this: enter cat, type “hello” without pressing enter, then Ctrl+D: you should see “hellohello”.
    An extremely rare case of this being useful would be using netcat to send a string somewhere, without sending the end-of-line byte at the end.

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      8 months ago

      I updated “Log out” to “Exit (sends a signal indicating the end of a text stream)”. Which I think is a lot more accurate, and still easy to understand.