[Feature Request] A way to repeat the test about tt HOT 2 CLOSED

I know that Esc "restarts the test" but in the case of random words, it generates a totally new set of words than what you were previously typing

I think the default behaviour makes more sense and am not convinced this is useful enough to warrant a dedicated flag. For your own purposes you can achieve the desired result by generating the text yourself and relying on the default behaviour of custom text. E.G shuf -n50 /usr/share/dict/words|tt.

and in the case of fed-in text, it puts you back at the very first paragraph, regardless of what paragraph you were on when you pressed Esc.

I am considering implementing something like this, however I'm not sure how it should work. The current behaviour is to treat everything that gets piped in as a single test consisting of multiple paragraphs (which is why WPM is reported at the end). If the behaviour of escape was to change how would you modify the WPM?

In this regard, I like wpm's navigation: space and arrows to move through (sub-)tests and esc to restart.

I am not familiar with it, but this sounds like it might be an interesting idea.

Edit:

Upon reflection I've realized what you propose is better default behaviour and implemented it. I have also added -multi which causes the program to treat each paragraph of the input as a separate test. It is worth noting that tt is flexible enough that it is possible to implement -multi externally

E.G

fmt -w 1000 < input.txt|awk '!/^ *$/'|while read p; do echo $p|tt -oneshot || break; done

however it is decidedly common enough to justify the inclusion of a dedicated flag.

Please feel free to close the issue if this addresses your use case or else leave further comment :).

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