How to remove forwarding vertical bars
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Brigitte
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Hello,
I found this explanation but I don't know what the L corresponds to...
Could someone please help me,
Thank you in advance!
Brigitte
Pipe / Vertical bar on Mac
Practical advice - macOS
To enter the pipe character (|) on Mac OS, simply type the following key combination: Alt + Shift + L...
Configuration: Macintosh / Safari 11.1.2
I found this explanation but I don't know what the L corresponds to...
Could someone please help me,
Thank you in advance!
Brigitte
Pipe / Vertical bar on Mac
Practical advice - macOS
To enter the pipe character (|) on Mac OS, simply type the following key combination: Alt + Shift + L...
Configuration: Macintosh / Safari 11.1.2
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At my place it works; for example, right now to type the "pipe" character here, I hold down both Shift and Alt keys, then I press the L key and it gives me this:
|
I do it 3 times in a row:
|||
Go to your system preferences / Keyboard / Input method, and check the box that allows you to have the Keyboard Viewer in the menu bar:
You will then be able to see "live" the response of your key presses
|
I do it 3 times in a row:
|||
Go to your system preferences / Keyboard / Input method, and check the box that allows you to have the Keyboard Viewer in the menu bar:
You will then be able to see "live" the response of your key presses
Hello Brigitte,
The character "|" is called "pipe"
It should not be understood as the French word for the object used to smoke tobacco, but rather the word tube or pipe because that is the English word used to refer to the character "|". If you want to hear its pronunciation in English, click on the speaker icon on this Google Translate page:
Why does this character "|" have an English origin?
It's because in computing, this character is used to chain commands:
This syntax indicates that the result of command 1 should be used as input for command 2, but I won’t go further into the details, that would be more off-topic.
So let's return to your request for clarification (
This character "|" is obtained like this:
- press Alt and hold down the Alt key
- press Shift and hold down the Shift key (so you have both Alt and Shift keys pressed)
- press L (so you have three keys pressed)
- release all three keys at once: you should get a beautiful character |
Note: in the syntax "Alt + Shift + L", it should be understood that the character + means "keep the key pressed"
Ritchi
PS: for those who came to this discussion hoping to find an answer to the question "how to remove the vertical bars from forwarding" (title of this discussion), then you need to go here where the answer is given:
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-37070016-suite-question-comment-retirer-les-barres-verticales-de-reexpedition-d-emails#top
The character "|" is called "pipe"
It should not be understood as the French word for the object used to smoke tobacco, but rather the word tube or pipe because that is the English word used to refer to the character "|". If you want to hear its pronunciation in English, click on the speaker icon on this Google Translate page:
Why does this character "|" have an English origin?
It's because in computing, this character is used to chain commands:
command 1 | command 2
This syntax indicates that the result of command 1 should be used as input for command 2, but I won’t go further into the details, that would be more off-topic.
So let's return to your request for clarification (
I press Alt + Shift + L and it doesn’t work. Should I click somewhere first?) that you made following Francis's response, whom I greet by the way.
This character "|" is obtained like this:
- press Alt and hold down the Alt key
- press Shift and hold down the Shift key (so you have both Alt and Shift keys pressed)
- press L (so you have three keys pressed)
- release all three keys at once: you should get a beautiful character |
Note: in the syntax "Alt + Shift + L", it should be understood that the character + means "keep the key pressed"
Ritchi
PS: for those who came to this discussion hoping to find an answer to the question "how to remove the vertical bars from forwarding" (title of this discussion), then you need to go here where the answer is given:
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-37070016-suite-question-comment-retirer-les-barres-verticales-de-reexpedition-d-emails#top
