“Where is the … key?”

Author

Josef Fruehwald

Modified

April 8, 2024

Single Quotes vs Backticks

It’s important to distinguish between single quotes: ' and backticks `. They look similar, but aren’t interchangeable.

The backtick key is highlighted in the images of the keyboards below, in the top left side.

Slash (/) vs backslash (\).

These different symbols will do different things, and aren’t interchangeable!

Slash (/) location

Backslash (\) location

The tilde ~ key.

To type the tilde1 key you have to hold .

The caret ^

You can get the caret symbol with

The Pipe |

You can get the pipe, or vertical bar, with .

Side Note: “Smart Quotes”

If, at some point, you copy-paste text from the internet into your code or a text file, you might wind up with “smart quotes” that make things work weird!

Regular Quotes Smart Quotes
"regular" “smart”
'regular' ‘smart’

Be careful not to have smart quotes cropping up in your code or data!

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Footnotes

  1. Pronunciations include [tɪl.də] and [tɪl.di]↩︎

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{fruehwald,
  author = {Fruehwald, Josef},
  title = {“{Where} Is the ... Key?”},
  url = {https://lin511-2024.github.io/notes/concepts/01_keyboarding.html},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Fruehwald, Josef. n.d. “‘Where Is the ... Key?’” https://lin511-2024.github.io/notes/concepts/01_keyboarding.html.