2024-01-23 01:56:09 <KipIngram   > In case anyone is interested, at the Linux console 'tput civis' will hide the cursor and 'tput cnorm' will restore it.
2024-01-23 01:57:49 <Riviera     > most terminals / terminal emulators should support this
2024-01-23 01:58:19 <Riviera     > the linux console has nice "software cursor" features, for cool colourful block cursors ;D
2024-01-23 02:17:48 <KipIngram   > I have a little window down in the corner of my console space where I run a script that lists my battery status, current consumption, fan speed, and top five CPU consumers.  It's nice to not have the cursor visible at all in that window.
2024-01-23 18:29:07 <user51      > Notthing practical, but I was thinking that with adequete handwriting recognition, forth seems much more easier to handwrite than other languages.
2024-01-23 18:50:22 <KipIngram   > Hmmm.  I'd never really given that any thought.  It would certainly be easier than Python, where indentation is so important.
2024-01-23 18:50:41 <KipIngram   > But yes, well-crafted Forth should "read like prose" to some extent.
2024-01-23 18:52:12 <thrig       > https://thrig.me/tmp/forth-the.png
2024-01-23 18:57:28 <user51      > KipIngram: I had a period where I wrote word sequences that looked appealing.  My favorite one was ( c-addr u ) lexer parser runtime