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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 802762e..100b938 100644..120000 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,65 +1 @@ -Overview -======== - -SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to [VideoTECO](http://www.copters.com/teco.html). -It also adds features from classic TECO-11, as well as unique new ideas. - -The basic approach to text editing is both radically different and surprisingly similar to popular -editors like Vi or EMacs. Instead of using mostly keyboard commands to modify text in a visual -manner, in SciTECO you edit a program (called macro) using very few keyboard commands (called -immediate editing commands). This program edits text for the user and is executed immediately, -as far as possible. For instance, moving the cursor to the right can be done immediatly via the -"C" command which is a part of the editor language. The language is the editor so to speak. -When you delete a character from the end of the command line macro (called rubout), the -side-effects of that character which may be a command or part of a command, are undone. - -SciTECO uses the [Scintilla](http://www.scintilla.org/) editor component and supports -GTK+ as well as NCurses frontends (using [Scinterm](http://foicica.com/scinterm/)). -The NCurses frontend also works with [PDCurses/XCurses](http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/) -and its [win32a port](http://www.projectpluto.com/win32a.htm). -Both Linux and Windows are supported. - -Features -======== - -Some of these features are not yet present but expected to be supported in the near future. - -* All of the basic VideoTECO commands supported -* Operator precedence in arithmetic expressions and an argument stack that may be modified - by the user (commands may have more than two arguments) -* Extended Q-Register namespace (arbitrary strings): can be used to build libraries and - can be abused as a data structure -* Make use of your keyboard's function keys by assigning them to strings inserted into - the command stream -* Many TECO-11 features, like that most commands have a colon-modified form, string-building - characters, exotic match characters -* Interactivity: supports filename completion via immediate editing commands (e.g. `<TAB>` in - commands accepting filenames); immediate searching (similar to search-as-you-type) -* Command rubout: SciTECO can even undo file writes (`EW` command) -* Munging: Macros may be munged, that is executed in batch mode. By default, a profile - is munged. -* Syntax highlighting, styles, line numbers, etc. thanks to Scintilla - -Installation -============ - -SciTECO has the following build and runtime dependencies: -* GNU C, C++ and [Gob2](http://www.jirka.org/gob.html) -* [Glib](http://developer.gnome.org/glib/), as a cross-platform runtime library -* [Scintilla](http://www.scintilla.org/), and possibly [Scinterm](http://foicica.com/scinterm/) -* [GTK+ 2](http://www.gtk.org/), [NCurses](http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/), - [PDCurses/XCurses](http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/) or - [PDCurses/Win32a](http://www.projectpluto.com/win32a.htm). -* Other curses implementations might work as well but are untested. - -1. Build Scintilla as described in its README. If you want to build the ncurses version, - install Scinterm from a subdirectory of Scintilla called "scinterm". -2. Untar/unzip/check-out SciTECO into a subdirectory of Scintilla. -3. Build with `make INTERFACE=GTK` or `make INTERFACE=NCURSES` respectively. -3. Install with `make install`. -4. You are recommended to use the included "teco.ini" as a starting point for your profile, - so copy it to "~/.teco_ini". The default "teco.ini" opens files specified on the - commandline for you, uses a file open hook to configure syntax highlighting (only - C/C++ and Makefiles for now) and enables line numbers. - -More documentation is coming soon. +README
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