why backtiks for a word?
Hi list, We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else? -- Cheers - zeal
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:49, zeal <zealcook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
in which context do you ask above? bash? C? else? or something unrelated to programming? -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:49, zeal <zealcook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
in which context do you ask above? bash? C? else? or something unrelated to programming?
Hmm, not in bash. In some documents, or comments in the source code. eg. I love `linux'. A reverse quotation (`) and a quotation ('). -- Cheers - zeal
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, zeal wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:49, zeal <zealcook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
in which context do you ask above? bash? C? else? or something unrelated to programming?
Hmm, not in bash. In some documents, or comments in the source code. eg. I love `linux'. A reverse quotation (`) and a quotation (').
there's not much point speculating on what the original poster meant until he clarifies it. the connection to the linux kernel here is still entirely unclear. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, zeal wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:49, zeal <zealcook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
in which context do you ask above? bash? C? else? or something unrelated to programming?
Hmm, not in bash. In some documents, or comments in the source code. eg. I love `linux'. A reverse quotation (`) and a quotation (').
there's not much point speculating on what the original poster meant until he clarifies it. the connection to the linux kernel here is still entirely unclear.
Maybe it's related to unix / linux world. Sorry for the noise. -- Cheers - zeal
On Jul 16, 2011 7:50 PM, "zeal" <zealcook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
It might be a carry over from the tex/latex world. In tex/latex a backtick ` is used to open a quote a forward tick ' is used to close it. Similarly a double backtick `` for opening double quotes and two forward ticks '' for closing double quotes. This way tex/latex is absolutely sure that you want opening or closing braces. Regards Amit
-- Cheers
- zeal
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, mechanical amit <mechanicalamit@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 16, 2011 7:50 PM, "zeal" <zealcook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
It might be a carry over from the tex/latex world. In tex/latex a backtick ` is used to open a quote a forward tick ' is used to close it. Similarly a double backtick `` for opening double quotes and two forward ticks '' for closing double quotes. This way tex/latex is absolutely sure that you want opening or closing braces.
Regards Amit
Well done for deciphering the question, Amit! ;-) Zeal, this isn't a kernelnewbies question so isn't really appropriate for this mailing list, but having said that it is kind of difficult googling for punctuation marks when you don't know what they are called :-). So you might find this helpful; the punctuation mark ` is also known as a backquote or a grave accent (as well as a backtick as Amit pointed out) and here is a link to it on Wikipedia. There's some info on its use in various programming contexts at the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent Cheers Julie
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, mechanical amit <mechanicalamit@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 16, 2011 7:50 PM, "zeal" <zealcook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
It might be a carry over from the tex/latex world. In tex/latex a backtick ` is used to open a quote a forward tick ' is used to close it. Similarly a double backtick `` for opening double quotes and two forward ticks '' for closing double quotes. This way tex/latex is absolutely sure that you want opening or closing braces.
Regards Amit
Well done for deciphering the question, Amit! ;-)
Zeal, this isn't a kernelnewbies question so isn't really appropriate for this mailing list, but having said that it is kind of difficult googling for punctuation marks when you don't know what they are called :-). So you might find this helpful; the punctuation mark ` is also known as a backquote or a grave accent (as well as a backtick as Amit pointed out) and here is a link to it on Wikipedia. There's some info on its use in various programming contexts at the bottom of the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent
Cheers Julie
Thank you kindly list. -- Cheers - zeal
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