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authormitchell <70453897+667e-11@users.noreply.github.com>2013-04-03 16:56:14 -0400
committermitchell <70453897+667e-11@users.noreply.github.com>2013-04-03 16:56:14 -0400
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Textadept should support multiple curses platforms; remove ncurses references.
Requires Scintilla r4436 and Scinterm r45.
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[Lua 5.2 Reference Manual]: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#6.4.1
-## Ncurses Compatibility
+## Curses 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:
+Textadept 5.5 beta introduced a curses version that can run in a terminal
+emulator. However, since curses is quite low-level in terms of graphics
+capability compared to GTK+, the curses version of Textadept lacks some features
+in its editing component Scintilla:
* Any settings with alpha values are not supported.
* Autocompletion lists cannot show images (pixmap surfaces are not supported).
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ features in its editing component Scintilla:
drawing arrow shapes).
* Caret settings like period, line style, and width are not supported
(terminals use block carets with their own period definitions).
-* Code pages other than UTF-8 have not been tested and it is possible ncurses
- does not support them.
+* Code pages other than UTF-8 have not been tested and it is possible some
+ curses implementations do not support them.
* Edge lines are not displayed properly (the line is drawn over by text lines).
* Extra ascent and decent for lines is not supported.
* Fold lines are not supported (`surface->LineTo()` is not supported).