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Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop lid (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17528189

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do the characters even have morse code assigned to them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

COW (a moo themed brainfuck variant) would work.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I found those:

Underscore		. . _ _ . _
Addition		. _ . _ .
Subtraction		_ . . . . _ 
Multiplication		_ . . _
Division		_ _ _ . . .
Equal			_ . . . _
Right Parenthesis	_ . _ _ . _
Left Parenthesis	_ . _ _ .

But this isn't enough for programming, square and curly brackets, carets, ampersand, pipe, tilda... I think it's gonna be pretty challenging

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

C is so old, it has a way to work around that! In case your 198x keyboard was not set to ASCII you know. Not sure if Morse covers all the characters needed for the replacement trigraphs though.

https://riptutorial.com/c/example/23858/trigraphs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I love when there are solutions for every weird use case ^^

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't you extend it by adding extra bits? Though typing them would be problematic as the length will be growing too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It would be a blow to render this typing method slightly slower, definitely a deal breaker 😏

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Please delete the .m. from the Wikipedia link so it's correct for desktop users.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What if desktop users delete it themselves, if they don't like it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The default link redirects for mobile automatically, it doesn't work the other way around.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

Ok, that's fair point, but it still isn't other people's job to serve you links just how you like them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Did

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Thanks!