3 ms·
It is not sufficient to disable backspace. This thing fails the authenticity test as follows: * Type a few letters * Use the left arrow several times t
by patrakov 1y ago
It is not sufficient to disable backspace. This thing fails the authenticity test as follows:
* Type a few letters
* Use the left arrow several times to go to the beginning of the line
* Type something else
Expected result: overlapping letters, or, if the same letter has been typed twice, bold letters.
Actual result: new letters are inserted - something that a typewriter cannot do.
- faxmeyourcode 1y agoYeah it's not truly a typewriter simulator, more of just a constrained editor that forces you to either live with mistakes or think more deeply about your words as you type. I played around with overlapping letters and got it working somewhat well, but everything else like printing got more complicated. It's also got auto word wrap that wouldn't be available on a conventional typewriter. I think some electronic typewriters that had a buffer of letters to fill before it "printed" them had word wrap, but that's not what people usually think of. You'd also be able on a typewriter to do more creative things like type literally anywhere on the vertical axis, not just in lines like I've enforced here.