Is Vim immune to copy-paste attack?
You should never paste from web to your terminal. Instead, you should paste to your text editor, check the command and then paste to the terminal.
special-characters
What is the Mode_switch modifier for?
Playing with xmodmap I encountered a modifier key I hadn’t heard of: Mode_switch. It seems to have something to do with inserting special characters.
How can I find the common name for a particular glyph?
Sometimes, I’d like to know the name of a glyph. For example, if I see −, I may want to know if it’s a hyphen -, an en-dash –, an em-dash —, or a minus symbol −. Is there a way that I can copy-paste this into a terminal to see what it is?