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diff --git a/TECHNOLOGY.md b/TECHNOLOGY.md deleted file mode 100644 index 293dc654..00000000 --- a/TECHNOLOGY.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -# Technology - -Textadept is composed of many different technologies, which are briefly listed -in the following sections. - -## User Interface - -Textadept's user interface consists of a graphical user interface (GUI) and a -terminal user interface (TUI). - -=[GTK][] - GIMP Toolkit= - Textadept uses GTK as its cross-platform GUI toolkit. - -=[ncurses][], [pdcurses][] - Libraries for displaying terminal applications= - Textadept uses ncurses as its Linux, MacOSX, and BSD terminal UI, and uses - pdcurses as its Windows terminal UI. - -=[gtDialog][]\* - Cross-platform tool for creating interactive dialogs= - Textadept uses gtDialog for displaying interactive GUI and TUI dialogs. - -=[cdk][] - Widget library for terminal applications= - Textadept uses cdk for drawing terminal UI widgets. - -=[libtermkey][] - Library for processing keyboard entry for terminal apps= - Textadept uses libtermkey for advanced keyboard entry handling. - -## Editor - -Textadept's core text editing component is Scintilla. - -=[Scintilla][] - Scintilla= - Textadept uses Scintilla as its core text editing component. - -## Scripting - -Textadept uses Lua as its scripting language. The editor is primarily written in -Lua and includes a few external libraries. - -=[Lua][] - Lua Programming Language= - Textadept uses Lua as its internal scripting language. Most of Textadept is - written in Lua. - -=[LPeg][] - Parsing Expression Grammars for Lua= - Textadept uses LPeg in its Scintilla lexers. - -=[LuaFileSystem][] - Library for accessing directories and file attributes= - Textadept uses LFS for accessing the host filesystem. - -\* A Foicica.com project. - -[GTK]: http://www.gtk.org -[Scintilla]: http://scintilla.org -[Lua]: http://www.lua.org -[LPeg]: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html -[LuaFileSystem]: http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem/ -[gtDialog]: http://foicica.com/gtdialog/ -[ncurses]: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ -[pdcurses]: http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ -[cdk]: http://invisible-island.net/cdk/ -[libtermkey]: http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtermkey/ |