Happy things thread!

[Torco]

heh, me too. plus at least in my circles you don't give friends christmas gifts, mostly family. even so, gifts kinda stress me out.

[Man in Space]

The jacket I’ve been waiting for since Thanksgiving has finally arrived. Blue with yellow lightning bolts!

[Man in Space]

Name change submitted to the probate court.

[sasasha]

Name change submitted to the probate court.

Congratulations!

[Travis B.]

One of the users of zeptoforth, who has been playing music with it, is creating a board with a piezo and a MOSFET (for amplification) on it and sending it to me in thanks for helping him get music playing with zeptoforth. I asked him if he wanted anything in return or at least to cover postage and he said no. So soon I will be playing his music (he has in particular implemented quite a few Christmas tunes) using his board.

[Man in Space]

My FMLA was approved.

[Raphael]

My FMLA was approved.

Congratulations, I guess. Though perhaps it would go too far to celebrate something that should be self-evident.

[Ares Land]

My FMLA was approved.

Good news, and a relief, I guess.

[Travis B.]

My FMLA was approved.

Good news, and a relief, I guess.

Thirded.

[Travis B.]

I am now playing Christmas tunes, amongst others, on the board with the piezo I received in the mail today, in time for Christmas!

[Raphael]

I am now playing Christmas tunes, amongst others, on the board with the piezo I received in the mail today, in time for Christmas!

Have fun!

[Raphael]

The days around Christmas went fairly well for us this year.

[Travis B.]

The beginnings of a new text editor for zeptoforth are going awfully well considering that I had only gotten its underlying "dynamic buffer" objects working on Sunday. It currently has no capacity to load or save files though, but that is a minor thing to add once I get everything else working. At this point the biggest issue I have is that control-C is already taken for rebooting, so if the user enters that, e.g. thinking that they will copy selected text, it will instead reboot the microcontroller.

[Raphael]

At this point the biggest issue I have is that control-C is already taken for rebooting, so if the user enters that, e.g. thinking that they will copy selected text, it will instead reboot the microcontroller.

Ouch.

[Travis B.]

At this point the biggest issue I have is that control-C is already taken for rebooting, so if the user enters that, e.g. thinking that they will copy selected text, it will instead reboot the microcontroller.

Ouch.

Partially I chose control-C because under Unices it is already the typical "interrupt" key, which normally interrupts (in most cases kills if not explicitly caught) the process with control of the terminal. The other part is that a terminal program (swdcom) that uses SWD for terminal access that I support on STM32 platforms already uses control-C to force a reboot anyways, so I figured that it would be consistent with that. Any key which involves multiple bytes being sent, e.g. escape followed by '[' would be too complex for something meant to reboot the system even when it is barely functional, which limits the choices available.

[bradrn]

Why not make a vi clone instead? My muscle memory would never C-C in vi.

[Travis B.]

Why not make a vi clone instead? My muscle memory would never C-C in vi.

Because I don't like vi and only use it when I have no choice. I decided in this case to opt for control-K to cut, control-alt-K to copy, and control-Y to paste, partly based off of how Emacs does it.

[Travis B.]

Someone wants to submit a change to zeptoforth on the RP2040 to enable the user to change the system clock (which currently is hard-coded to 125 MHz), and they also want to add support for wired Ethernet over SPI (which is less than it sounds like, since zeptoIP already supports IPv4 and is intentionally very loosely coupled with the CYW43439 WiFi driver).

[Travis B.]

I hence announce zeptoed, my new text editor for zeptoforth! It supports multiple buffers, copy/cut-and-paste, and undo (sorry no redo though). It edits files in FAT32 filesystems on SDHC/SDXC cards. It is not in a build yet, because there are still a few things I want to clean up (tabs at the ends of lines, up and down arrows with tabs and Unicode, which are currently a bit funky) and a few things I want to add (page up/down, proper indentation support), but it already is quite functional. It will be added to the devel and master branches once it is really ready, but I am quite excited about how far it has gotten already.

[Travis B.]

Okay, got indentation and unindentation mostly working in zeptoed, aside from that unindentation with tab characters is currently a bit glitchy.