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by 1880 5358 days ago
> the backslash is ugly

Not only that, it's very unconfortable to type in some international keyboard layouts.
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tripzilch 5358 days ago
If you're talking about the German layout and AltGr, then so are the []{} keys, which are already used quite a lot in PHP programming.

It's the main reason why, even though my phyiscal keys are in German layout, I still have the USA layout in software. It's just nice to be able to make [] with a single key press :)

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minikomi 5358 days ago
Agreed. Although function-¥ does give my hands a stretch now and then, I don't want to be typing it constantly..
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