What If We Could Use * to Fix Typos in Place?
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A Twitter post proposes using '*' to fix typos in place, sparking a discussion about its practicality.
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ozgrakkurt
4 months ago
This would be amazing on a computer but it is fairly hard to reach star in a phone keyboard
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