The word you’re thinking of is ‘user’.

If I’m honest, I’ve never heard of elf on a shelf, other than in posts like this.

Yeah, fair enough for the general case. I do think their situation is a good one though.

It worked for a friend of mine. They were friends, he kept trying to get her to date him and after a year of pestering she caved. They’re engaged now.

that does sound super useful

What is reveal codes?

I assume this is from Scrubs but I don’t remember this scene?

I believe there’s a setting for whether it’s global or per-window. Personally I prefer global, because I can’t keep track of more than one state and I absolutely hate the experience of typing something and getting a different language than you expect.

That’s pretty cool

Multilingual users have multiple keyboard layouts, usually switching with Alt+Shift or similar key combo. If you’re multitasking you might not realize you’re on the wrong keyboard layout. So say you’re chatting with someone in Russian, then you alt+tab to your source code and you spot a typo - you wrote my_var_xopy instead of my_var_copy. You delete the x and type in c. You forget this happened and you never realized the keyboard layout was wrong.

That c that you typed is now actually с, Cyrillic Es.

What do you say, is that realistic enough?

Oh, that I agree with. But then there’s the mess of Unicode updates, and if you’re using an old version of the compiler that was built with an old version of Unicode, it might not recognize every character you use…

Sanity is subjective here. There are reasons to disallow non-ASCII characters, for example to prevent identical-looking characters from causing sneaky bugs in the code, like this but unintentional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack (and yes, don’t you worry, this absolutely can happen unintentionally).

Yes, but the language/compiler defines which characters are allowed in variable names.

That’s a problem when you get to the fourth.

Embedded for convenience:

Can we make it a rubber duck? I’d like to be able to debug my code at any time.

“smoking” and “cured” mean something else when talking about meat

There’s likely a clearer error if you scroll up.

JavaScript is not named after an animal

I don’t know the system in question, but it’s definitely a bad design when comments need to be written with care. Either you set this up in a really wonky way, or the system you’re using did and it should be fixed ASAP.

What code is in charge of injecting things into a shell script?