Text Editor Created In Minecraft

jones_supa writes: The redstone mechanics in Minecraft can be pushed surprisingly far to create rather advanced digital circuits. Thanks to a user nicknamed Koala_Steamed, there now exists a text editor inside the game (YouTube demonstration). It comes with a 5 x 10 character matrix in which each character uses a starburst (16-segment) display. There are 7.357 x 10^92 different combinations the screen can show, all of which can be controlled from a single line. The scale of the workings used to make this piece of logic, using only redstone, is dauntingly huge.

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the whole things an editor if you're brave enough

[nimbius]

I know it may not be the most efficient thing in the world, but its entirely possibly to write your term papers in Minecraft over the span of about 6 months to a year if you stick to harvesting wool to create a "paper" substrate and creating coal blocks for pixels. Presuming you make it long enough to avoid any creepers, the paper can be read from an enormous glass skybridge you construct over the next 2 weeks, and should only take 4 weeks to completely read, give or take a few days to a week if you fall from it a few times or if endermen start stealing text.

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[NotInHere]

does it support vi or emacs commands?

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[ComputerGeek01]

On behalf of Systems Administrators everywhere; I will personally bitch slap the first user that tries to tell me that their preferred emacs interpreter is Minecraft.

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[Eosi]

I prefer Minecraft as my preferred emacs interpreter. :-) (could not resist)

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[Anonymous Coward]

I personally use Emacs as my preferred Minecraft interpreter.

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[0100010001010011]

You underestimate my laziness.

Next thing you know

[Marginal Coward]

Next thing you know, Minecraft will be self-hosting. Lord help us, the singularity awakes!