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@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Overview ======== -<img align="left" alt="SciTECO" src="ico/sciteco-48.png"/> SciTECO is an interactive TECO dialect, similar to Video TECO. It also adds features from classic TECO-11, as well as unique new ideas. @@ -17,8 +16,10 @@ as far as possible. For instance, moving the cursor to the right can be done imm 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+ 3 as well as Curses frontends (using [Scinterm](http://foicica.com/scinterm/)). + + +SciTECO uses the [Scintilla](https://www.scintilla.org/) editor component and supports +GTK+ 3 as well as Curses frontends (using [Scinterm](https://foicica.com/scinterm/)). The Curses frontend is verified to work with [ncurses](https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/), [NetBSD Curses](https://github.com/sabotage-linux/netbsd-curses), @@ -53,7 +54,8 @@ Features the command stream. This also enables navigating with function keys (e.g. cursor keys) as demonstrated by the standard library `fnkeys.tes`. - Function key macros can be context-sensitive, too. + In fact, all keys with printable representation and control keys can be remapped using + key macros - and they can be context-sensitive as well! * Many TECO-11 features, like that most commands have a colon-modified form, string-building characters, exotic match characters... * Interactivity: Immediate searching (similar to search-as-you-type) and @@ -73,8 +75,13 @@ Features * Munging: Macros may be munged, that is executed in batch mode. In other words, SciTECO can be used for scripting. By default, a profile is munged. -* 8-bit clean: SciTECO can be used to edit binary files if automatic EOL conversion - is turned off (`16,0ED`). +* Full Unicode (UTF-8) support: The document is still represented as a random-accessible + codepoint sequence. + While SciTECO macros can be written in plain ASCII - even in its printable subset - + Unicode glyphs can be used everywhere, where a single character is accepted, for instance + in single letter Q-Register names. +* 8-bit clean: SciTECO can be used to edit binary files if the encoding is changed to + ANSI and automatic EOL conversion is turned off (easiest with `--8bit`). * Self-documenting: An integrated indexed help system allows browsing formatted documentation about commands, macros and concepts within SciTECO (`?` command). Macro packages can be documented with the `tedoc` tool, generating man pages. @@ -104,35 +111,40 @@ Download There are prebuilt binary packages and source bundles for your convenience: -* [Download Archive at Sourceforge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/sciteco/files/) * [Github Releases](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/releases) +* [Download Archive at Sourceforge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/sciteco/files/) * [Ubuntu PPA](https://launchpad.net/~robin-haberkorn/+archive/sciteco) +* [Arch User Repository](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sciteco-git) * Users of OpenWrt may try to install the [`sciteco` package of this feed](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/nanonote-ports). * Yocto/OpenEmbedded users should try the [`sciteco` package from this layer](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/meta-rhaberkorn). * [Chocolatey package](https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/SciTECO) for Windows users. -* The official [SciTECO homepage](http://sciteco.sf.net/) is a live demo. -These releases may be quite outdated, so you may also try out the -[nightly builds](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/releases/tag/nightly) - +These releases may be quite outdated and not all of them are provided or tested by the author. +So you may also try out the [nightly builds](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/releases/tag/nightly) - they represent the repository's HEAD commit but may well be unstable. -Both ncurses and Gtk+ packages are provided both for Ubuntu and Windows. +Both ncurses and Gtk+ packages are provided for Ubuntu, generic Linux +(in the form of [AppImages](https://appimage.org/)) and Windows. For [Mac OS X](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/wiki/Mac-OS-Support), we currently only provide *experimental* ncurses builds. If everything fails, you can try building from source. -See [`INSTALL`](INSTALL) for more details. +See [`INSTALL`](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/blob/master/INSTALL) for more details. Additional Documentation ======================== * Online manpages: - [__sciteco__(1)](http://sciteco.sf.net/manuals/sciteco.1.html), - [__sciteco__(7)](http://sciteco.sf.net/manuals/sciteco.7.html), - [__grosciteco.tes__(1)](http://sciteco.sf.net/manuals/grosciteco.tes.1.html), - [__tedoc.tes__(1)](http://sciteco.sf.net/manuals/tedoc.tes.1.html) + [__sciteco__(1)](https://rhaberkorn.github.io/sciteco/sciteco.1.html), + [__sciteco__(7)](https://rhaberkorn.github.io/sciteco/sciteco.7.html), + [__grosciteco.tes__(1)](https://rhaberkorn.github.io/sciteco/grosciteco.tes.1.html), + [__tedoc.tes__(1)](https://rhaberkorn.github.io/sciteco/tedoc.tes.1.html) +* [Cheat Sheet and Language Overview](https://sciteco.sf.net/manuals/cheat-sheet.pdf). + This can be printed on an A4 sheet of paper. * [Wiki at Github](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/wiki) -* A [short presentation](http://sciteco.sf.net/manuals/presentation.pdf) - (in German!) hold at [Netz39](http://www.netz39.de/). +* A [short presentation](https://sciteco.sf.net/manuals/presentation.pdf) + (in German!) hold at [Netz39](https://www.netz39.de/). + +<p align="center"><img alt="SciTECO icon" src="https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/raw/master/ico/sciteco-48.png"/></p> |