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Fix order of arguments to `ln`

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I have a pathological inability to get the arguments to ln in the right order.

For some reason I always think it’s ln -s <origin> <destination> whereas in fact it is ln -s <destination> <origin>.

Can fuck fix this?

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  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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nvbncommented, Jun 28, 2016

Added in 3.10

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scorphuscommented, Jun 22, 2016

Any of you willing to code it? I’m happy to coach ☺

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