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This seemed like it would be an interesting challenge. One day my youngest son suggested I should write one that works the right way and allows overtyping.
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On a real typewriter, backspace simply moves the carriage back one space, allowing you to overtype a previously typed character.
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It started because I was trying to tell my kids about how typewriters worked (because of course they'd never seen one), so I looked for a typewriter simulator on the web, but all the existing ones that I could find get one very basic thing wrong - when you press backspace, they erase the character you just typed, like a computer.
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The only reason I haven't implemented it is the problem of designing a UI to represent unjamming it by picking the mechanism apart, and how to make your fingers inky and oily when you do it. Amazingly, this is the most commonly requested feature from the beta testers of this program.
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and/or can be locked down by holding one or both and pressing (effectively "shift lock").Hold down for "colour shift", which gives you red text.Use and to jump forward or back to the nearest tab stop.The up and down cursors move the roller by a quarter-line. You can use the cursor keys to move around.As well as just typing normal text, you might like try these:.Most people naturally overlap keypresses when typing on a computer keyboard - you may need to change your typing style to avoid skipping characters when typing at speed (see FAQ for more info). You must release each key before pressing the next.
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