Uses for the ‘"’ entity in HTML

It is impossible, and unnecessary, to know the motivation for using " in element content, but possible motives include: misunderstanding of HTML rules; use of software that generates such code (probably because its author thought it was “safer”); and misunderstanding of the meaning of ": many people seem to think it produces “smart quotes” (they … Read more

What are all the escape characters?

You can find the full list here. \t Insert a tab in the text at this point. \b Insert a backspace in the text at this point. \n Insert a newline in the text at this point. \r Insert a carriage return in the text at this point. \f Insert a formfeed in the text … Read more

How to Git stash pop specific stash in 1.8.3?

works as of git version 2.11 Original answer, possibly helping to debug issues with the older syntax involving shell escapes: As pointed out previously, the curly braces may require escaping or quoting depending on your OS, shell, etc. See “stash@{1} is ambiguous?” for some detailed hints of what may be going wrong, and how to … Read more