Character addressing doesn't scale

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Character addressing doesn't scale #6

Open BitPuffin opened 9 years ago

BitPuffin commented 9 years ago

I'm sure back in the day when screens were smaller, addressing from A to Z wasn't an issue. But on todays screen the alphabet barely covers half of the screen. Therefore I suggest making the indexing more scalable by doing:

X Y Z AA AB AC .. AX AY AZ BA BB BC

and so on.

What do you think?

I suppose this is more an enhancement request than a bugfix.

SirWumpus commented 1 year ago

IMO this would be messy and debatable as to its worth for saving a couple of extra key strokes. Its probably better to deprecate the upper-case letter addressing notation and/or for terminals with N+ rows have se switch to absolute line number addressing at start-up.