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| author |  mitchell <70453897+667e-11@users.noreply.github.com> | 2012-07-16 21:02:41 -0400 |
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| committer | mitchell <70453897+667e-11@users.noreply.github.com> | 2012-07-16 21:02:41 -0400 |
| commit | 3f2280eccaca67835679255025a4c05ab419944f (patch) | |
| tree | 7d80fd1e119b3155d510b67cf661981f52a1cf01 /doc/14_Appendix.md | |
| parent | ab2806f57d24d2cba3ab7657ed311fb7b6d1b6a2 (diff) | |
Added ncurses compatibility notes to the manual Appendix.
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diff --git a/doc/14_Appendix.md b/doc/14_Appendix.md index 703231b2..6df864f9 100644 --- a/doc/14_Appendix.md +++ b/doc/14_Appendix.md @@ -278,6 +278,30 @@ As a special case, the empty capture `()` captures the current string position [Lua 5.2 Reference Manual]: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#6.4.1 +## Ncurses Compatibility + +Textadept 5.5 beta introduced an ncurses version that can run in a terminal +emulator. However, since ncurses is quite low-level in terms of graphics +capability compared to GTK, the ncurses version of Textadept lacks some +features in its editing component Scintilla: + +* Buffered and two-phase drawing is not supported. +* Edge lines are not displayed properly (the line is drawn over by text lines). +* Indentation guides are not visible (pixmap surfaces are not supported). +* Indicators are not displayed (they would be drawn over by text lines). +* Line carets are not supported. +* Mouse interactions are not supported. +* Multiple fonts and font sizes are not supported. +* Only 8 colors are supported: black (`0x000000`), red (`0xFF0000`), green + (`0x00FF00`), yellow (`0xFFFF00`), blue (`0x0000FF`), magenta (`0xFF00FF`), + cyan (`0x00FFFF`), and white (`0xFFFFFF`). Even if your terminal uses a + different color map, you must use these color values with Scintilla; + unrecognized colors are set to white by default. Lexers can use up to 8 more + colors by setting the style's `bold` attribute. +* Viewing whitespace does not show the 'Tab' character arrows + (`surface->LineTo()` is not supported for drawing arrows). +* Visual wrap flags are not supported (`surface->LineTo()` is not supported). + ## Migration Guides ### Textadept 4 to 5 @@ -286,7 +310,7 @@ Lua has been upgraded from [5.1 to 5.2][], so many scripts written for Textadept 4 are not compatible with Textadept 5. Since incompatible scripts may cause crashes on startup, the following guide will help you migrate your scripts from Textadept 4 to Textadept 5. While this guide is not exhaustive, it covers the -changes I had to Textadept's internals. +changes I had to make to Textadept's internals. [5.1 to 5.2]: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8 |