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Article of the week: ASCII and Unicode quotation marks

The old X fonts encouraged some authors of Unix software and documentation to abuse 0x60 together with 0x27 as directional quotation marks. This practice looked somewhat acceptable like ‛quotation’ if displayed with old X fonts, but it looked rather ugly like `quotation' in most other modern display environments.

Tip of the week: Edit long commands with a text editor in Zsh:

1. Add the following lines to ~/.zshrc:

   export EDITOR=vim  # use your editor of choice, e.g. vim, nano, etc
   autoload -U edit-command-line  # loads the 'edit-command-line' function
   zle -N edit-command-line  # makes the function a Zsh widget
   bindkey <key> edit-command-line  # bind a key sequence to the widget
                                    # e.g. '^X^E' (ctrl x e), '\033' (esc)
                                    # use `bindkey` command to get a list
   

2. Save, and reload the shell with exec zsh.
3. Enter command line edit mode from the shell prompt using your chosen key shortcut.