R.L. Dane 
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Ajit Ananthadevan@rl_dane why is this a meme. wasn;t that the explicit purpose of omitted argument?
Or did you think that was just to get specifically to ~ only?
It's a meme because typing cd ~/docs is the generally viewed "correct" way, as it only requires a specific command.
But even though it requires two commands, cd; cd docs is easier to type, even though it's uglier.
@rl_dane I guess we have different sense to the word "correct". At least we'd agree on that XD
Dave@TheLancashireman @rl_dane pressing the shift is the least of your worries when the tilde is involved 🙃
I just counted it twice, and even counting ~ as two keypresses, I got 10 for both.
CJ 
👨💻@rl_dane I store all my git repositories in ~/code and I always just do
cd
cd code/
Instead of cd ../ 🤣
Seize@roguefoam @rl_dane I do basically the same thing. Plus I put an alias in my shell config to cd into those repos from *anywhere* by only typing part of the directory name.
AlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦@rl_dane Who *doesn't* do it that way? Kinda reminds me of Randal Schwartz' "useless cat" examples.
Those were fun.
I still get self-conscious about my occasional use of $(ls [something]), but there are times that it's difficult to avoid.
wyatt 
sotolf@rl_dane I do that too, but mostly because tilde is rather awkward to type on European keyboards.
Just curious, what's the keystroke to type a tikde on your keyboard layout?
@rl_dane AltGr (right alt key) + the key left of 1 since it's a dead key it will combine so you have to press space to get it to show up by itself and not become ñ for example, not really a problem with ~/ but it can get cumbersome, if I use the germal layout (qwertz) then it's AltGr + the rightmost key on the qwertz row the one right of ü marked with [*+~] and again it's a dead key so you have the same maybe problem that it will combine with the next chacter if you don't space it :)