@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • 4 months agoHow did marking corrections with the astrisk originate?message-square13fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareHow did marking corrections with the astrisk originate?@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • 4 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠linkfedilink4•4 months agoI can tell you that it dates at least as far back as IRC and AIM in the 90’s
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•edit-24 months agoI remember this too, but in the nerdier channels we used regex notation instead. s/nerdier/coolest/
minus-squareMaevelinkfedilink3•4 months agoI don’t remember * being used on IRC, mainly because it denoted other things. I’m not saying it wasn’t used, merely I remember the latter. Wasn’t aware that was regex, used it in bash.
I can tell you that it dates at least as far back as IRC and AIM in the 90’s
I remember this too, but in the nerdier channels we used regex notation instead.
s/nerdier/coolest/
I don’t remember * being used on IRC, mainly because it denoted other things. I’m not saying it wasn’t used, merely I remember the latter. Wasn’t aware that was regex, used it in bash.