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getting started
posted march 21i had a lot of ideas starting out with this, but i eventually decided to make the most basic 'text' thing i could - a text editor! when i made blascii, i used python's colorama and keyboard libraries. that, combined with a few terminal commands, was enough to create a simple real-time shooter. however, i knew i'd need something more robust if i wanted a reliable, responsive editor. the first thing i tried was the curses library, which works with python, and is native to c/c++. curses was good, but it's obtuse syntax drove me to find another option. after some searching, i came across blessed. blessed had many, many desirable features, including: - windows support - syntactic sugar for moving the cursor, colours, and more - context managers, rather than global settings (delicious) - etc. armed with this new approach, i started writing. you can find my first efforts on the github - screenshots below!
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