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As a fish shell user, I'd like to notice that "bash oneliners" and "terminal tricks" are not the same.

TFA mixes them freely, but makes it clear they're two different things, HN title kinda conflates them.

You are right in one sense, but it’s pretty clear that terminal tricks = shell tricks. Especially because there is no singular “terminal”.

And well, if you are complaining about “shell tricks” not including fish.. you’re the one choosing to make a breaking change with the shell world at large. Can’t then go out in the world and complain about it.

As an aside, do you know why fish doesn’t support using !!

I generally like it a lot but this is one shortcut I miss

They recommend using keybindings instead of adding syntax for such interactive-only tricks. In this case, I think alt+up was the default Fish keybinding. (I think in Bash, alt+. does the same?)

What does TFA mean in this context?

The (Freaking|Fu**ing|Fine|Founding|First) Article.

A way of referencing the article that has been submitted and these comments are discussing.

Probably one of the most useless and pointless TLA I've come across so far. TIHI.

It derives from an expression deep in the history of Usenet or e-mail (hyphenated), when hapless newbies (two syllables) were told by harried sysops to RTFM, read the f* manual.

And while it is being used now to simply reference the article, RTFA was originally used in the same way as RTFM. A way of expressing frustration to a commenter who should have read the fucking article first.

Indeed. I usually go with “OP” in non-frustrated contexts, myself.

The Featured Article. I think it is a HN term?

typical usages: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

We were using the acronym back on Chips and Dips.

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