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The "ding" is a bell that is mechanically activated when the carriage gets close to the end of the writeable area (in many typewriters, this is a moveable stop to account for variable paper width).

So when one types, the bell alerts the typist to the need to return the carriage; typically you get quite a few characters after the bell, either to finish your word, or hyphenate.

Which makes it ding-slide rather than slide-ding :)



This was also an option on many "Glass TTY" terminals - it was called the margin bell - and even some modern terminal emulators still have that option. The exact semantics vary, but it's usually triggered when entering content around 8 characters from the right margin.


As far as I remember it, the bell works on both sides, so you get ding, type..., slide-ding.


Hahaha, good point, you know I knew that but just didn’t think it through. I’d still like to make it though…




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