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This was initially a good laugh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24739220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24739220 . Since one cannot reply to that po
by downvotetruth 4y ago
This was initially a good laugh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24739220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24739220 . Since one cannot reply to that post anymore, turning the monitor off is not a feature of a text editor; although font color is a feature the length or presence of entered text is visible by the cursor position & neither options disable editing (append only?). Using a command similar to this on a POSIX terminal is an option to hide the input & seem to disable backspace & delete:
echo "Thoughts?"; read -d $'\04' -s x; echo "$x"
- dr_dshiv 4y agoHappy to amuse!
- anamexis 4y agoYou seem to have misplaced your comment.
- netsharc 4y agoHe's linking to a post from dr_dshiv and hijacking dr_dshiv's comment to reply to him because the original post has been archived...
- Retric 4y agoThe actual request is a little more subtle: I think just a letter or two... Anything more and I'd want to edit. Anything less and I'd worry about whether it was working. But, I will try it with my screen off
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