2025-08-30 00:01:31 <veltas      > What's funny is I put the block near the attributes (colour) page, so if I accidentally go slightly out of bounds I change all the colouring
2025-08-30 00:01:56 <xentrac     > cool! can you change part of a line?
2025-08-30 00:02:20 <veltas      > Not that easily but if lines are 32 chars it's not a big issue
2025-08-30 00:03:01 <veltas      > If you really want you could do e.g.  CHAR ' LIN @ LINE 24 + C! to set char offset 24 on current line to '
2025-08-30 00:03:35 <veltas      > It's a work in progress, I'll probably add more to it and have some room in the block to do so
2025-08-30 00:03:44 <xentrac     > I see
2025-08-30 00:04:02 <veltas      > It doesn't need to stay in one block either but I like that it feels pretty featureful for just one block
2025-08-30 00:04:10 <xentrac     > agreed
2025-08-30 00:04:31 <veltas      > I'm mostly happy with how it's handling the limited screen space of the spectrum
2025-08-30 00:05:43 <veltas      > I'm considering adding a word that lets you pre-populate the input buffer, and generally better keyboard controls of the input buffer
2025-08-30 00:05:54 <veltas      > If I do that then adding a word to 'edit' the current line is trivial
2025-08-30 00:06:44 <veltas      > The point of a pre-populated input buffer for me is that it would be useful for a lot of user interfaces, and for command-line history
2025-08-30 00:06:49 <veltas      > But also good for an editor
2025-08-30 00:12:17 <veltas      > Next thing is to actually make blocks work
2025-08-30 00:14:36 <xentrac     > yeah, if you had like a circular buffer of recently typed interpret-mode lines from which you could copy lines to whatever block you were working on...
2025-08-30 10:45:19 <veltas      > xentrac: On a normal forth I'd consider having a HISTORY var which when non-zero is a block that just circularly receives lines of history in truncated 64 or 128 byte groups
2025-08-30 10:45:47 <veltas      > Useful to have it in a block too, can edit and execute from there easily
2025-08-30 10:46:19 <veltas      > In the spectrum it would be in an array because block invalidation forces the user to go grab a cassette recorder
2025-08-30 15:37:13 <cleobuline  > forth in action http://patricia.benedetto.free.fr/cornichon.gif