2026-03-05 12:42:29 <veltas      > Only just found out there's an escape sequence to repeat the last character in terminals
2026-03-05 12:42:42 <veltas      > Can think of countless uses for this
2026-03-05 13:00:51 <veltas      > Maybe you'd find this useful tpbsd
2026-03-05 13:01:52 <tpbsd       > I can't think of an immediate use for that in my environment
2026-03-05 13:02:46 <tpbsd       > I basically develop by uploading the project to ram, testing, hard reset of the mcu and do it all again
2026-03-05 13:03:36 <tpbsd       > I'm a Forth user, not a Forth implimentor
2026-03-05 13:14:40 <veltas      > Well I mean if you ever do a progress bar or something like that over serial it would allow you to print repeated characters by only receiving a small number of bytes
2026-03-05 13:16:34 <tpbsd       > ahh!
2026-03-05 13:16:36 <veltas      > or for formatting tables faster
2026-03-05 13:17:30 <tpbsd       > as I use SWD for the terminal, I can instantly send up to 255 chars with no overhead
2026-03-05 13:17:51 <tpbsd       > overhead stopped being a problem with SWDCOM
2026-03-05 13:18:37 <veltas      > Fair enough
2026-03-05 15:39:28 <cleobuline  > forth:  VARIABLE zaza
2026-03-05 15:39:32 <cleobuline  > forth:  123456789123456789 zaza !
2026-03-05 15:39:36 <cleobuline  > forth:  SEE zaza
2026-03-05 15:39:48 <cleobuline  > forthBot:  VARIABLE zaza
2026-03-05 15:40:03 <cleobuline  > forthBot:  123456789123456789 zaza !
2026-03-05 15:40:14 <cleobuline  > forthBot:  SEE zaza
2026-03-05 15:40:15 <forthBot    > : zaza zaza ( variable = 123456789123456789 ) ;
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2026-03-05 20:37:34 <KipIngram   > Wait - SEE does something different depending on whether you've stored something to the variable or not?  That seems awfully complex.
2026-03-05 20:38:13 <KipIngram   > How does it know?  Does it just check for zero?