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on Scintilla styles
* The first 16 colors of the terminal palette can be redefined
using the 3EJ property - with all restrictions that ncurses
and UNIX terminals impose on us.
It is still important to be able to redefine the palette for
some color schemes like Solarized since it may be difficult
for users to set up the terminal emulator's palette manually.
Also when using PDCurses, setting the palette is port-specific
or only possible using init_color(). In order to allow color
redefinitions across all curses ports it makes sense if SciTECO
gives access to the color initialization of curses even if it can
guarantee very little about its semantics in general.
* 3EJ is completely ignored for GTK+
* use the STYLE_DEFAULT of the current document to style the message line.
Fg and bg colors are reversed to guarantee a good contrast to the
Scintilla view.
Errors are still hardcoded to a red background, warnings to yellow
and info messages to green.
This allows color-scheming more of SciTECO given that the
red, yellow and green terminal colors are not changed fundamentally
in the terminal's palette.
* info line is now also styled using STYLE_DEFAULT (reverse colors).
The Q-Register and buffer names are now written out using format_str()
which means that control characters are written out in REVERSE just
like in the command line.
String::canonicalize_ctl() is still used to canonicalize window
titles.
* Command line is now modelled as a curses Pad and "blitted" to the
command line window. This allowed simplification of the command line
drawing code and introduction of format_str().
The command line is now styled according to STYLE_DEFAULT (original
fg and bg colors).
The rubbed-out part of the command line can now longer be shown in
bold black - or even bold light black - since that is not visible in
all color themes. Instead it is now only shown in bold.
Command line theming problems will be gone once we use a Scintilla
view for the command line.
* The popup widget is now styled according to STYLE_CALLTIP.
* This means that all relevant parts of SciTECO's user interface
can now be themed. This allows the creation of themes that redefine
the terminal palette radically (e.g. Solarized) and the creation of
"bright" themes (e.g. Solarized/bright).
* theming of the non-scintilla-view parts of SciTECO is currently
unsupported on GTK+. The reason is that both the popup widget
and command line widgets have to be rewritten completely in GTK+
and are work in progress, so adapting the current code would be
a waste of time.
* Added a manual section about the UI and theming.
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cleanup/refactoring
* characters rubbed out are not totally removed from the command line,
but only from the *effective* command line.
* The rubbed out command line is displayed after the command line cursor.
On Curses it is grey and underlined.
* When characters are inserted that are on the rubbed out part of the command line,
the cursor simply moves forward.
NOTE: There's currently no immediate editing command for reinserting the
next character/word from the rubbed out command line.
* Characters resulting in errors are no longer simply discarded but rubbed out,
so they will stay in the rubbed out part of the command line, reminding you
which character caused the error.
* Improved Cmdline formatting on Curses UI:
* Asterisk is printed bold
* Control characters are printed in REVERSE style, similar to what
Scinterm does. The controll character formatting has thus been moved
from macro_echo() in cmdline.cpp to the UI implementations.
* Updated the GTK+ UI (UNTESTED): I did only, the most important API
adaptions. The command line still does not use any colors.
* Refactored entire command line handling:
* The command line is now a class (Cmdline), and most functions
in cmdline.cpp have been converted to methods.
* Esp. process_edit_cmd() (now Cmdline::process_edit_cmd()) has been
simplified. There is no longer the possibility of a buffer overflow
because of static insertion buffer sizes
* Cleaned up usage of the cmdline_pos variable (now Cmdline::pc) which
is really a program counter that used a different origin as macro_pc
which was really confusing.
* The new Cmdline class is theoretically 8-bit clean. However all of this
will change again when we introduce Scintilla views for the command line.
* Added 8-bit clean (null-byte aware) versions of QRegisterData::set_string()
and QRegisterData::append_string()
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* acts as a safe-guard against uninterrupted infinite loops
or other operations that are costly to undo in interactive mode.
If we're out of memory, it is usually too late to react properly.
This implementation tries to avoid OOMs due to SciTECO behaviour.
We cannot fully exclude the chance of an OOM error.
* The undo stack size is only approximated using the
UndoToken::get_size() method.
Other ways to measure the exact amount of allocated heap
(including size fields in every heap object or using sbrk(0) and
similar) are either costly in terms of memory or platform-specific.
This implementation does not need any additional memory per heap
object or undo token but exploits the fact that undo tokens
are virtual already. The size of an undo token is determined
at compile time.
* Default memory limit of 500mb should be OK for most people.
* The current limit can be queried with "2EJ" and set with <x>,2EJ.
This also works interactively (a bit tricky!)
* Limiting can be disabled. In this case, undo token processing
is a bit faster.
* closes #3
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optimized screen refreshing/redrawing
* pressing e.g. TAB when the popup is showing a list of auto-completions
will show the next page, eventually beginning at the first one again.
* do not redraw curses windows in the UI methods directly. this resulted
in flickering during command-line editing macros and ordinary macro calls
because the physical screen was updated immediately.
Instead, window refreshing and updated is done centrally in
event_loop_iter() only after a key has been processed.
Also we use wnoutrefresh() and doupdate() to send as little to the
terminal (emulator) as possible.
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* in batch mode, Scintilla undo actions are simply leaked memory
* Since we have more than one Scintilla view now, we must empty
the undo buffer of all scintilla views when a command line is committed ($$)
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* does not change ./configure parameters
You still have to specifiy --with-interface=ncurses for
the Curses interface with default settings
* the "NCurses" UI was used for many different Curses
variants, so plain "Curses" is a better name.
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* it must be initialized after the UI (Interface::main), so I added
a View::initialize() function
* the old initialize() method was renamed to setup()
* use a global instance of QRegister::view so it is guaranteed to
be destroyed only after any QRegisters that could still need it
* Document API adapted to work with ViewCurrent references
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Both UIs have a current_view, so this field, the
ssm(), undo_ssm() and get_current_view() methods can be
refactored into the Interface base class
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Template Pattern.
* without the one-view-per-buffer designs, many Scintilla send message (SSM)
calls could be inlined
* with the new design, this was no longer possible using the abstract
base classes. the CRT pattern allows inlining again but introduces
a strange level of code obscurity.
* tests suggest that at high optimization levels, the one-view-per-buffer
design and the CRT pattern reduces typical macro runtimes by 30%
(e.g. for symbols-extract.tes).
* only updated the NCurses UI for the time being
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run() method later in interface.h
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The user interface provides a Scintilla view abstraction and
every buffer is based on a view. All Q-Register strings use
a single dedicated view to save memory and initialization time
when using many string registers.
* this means we can finally implement a working lexer configuration
and it only has to be done once when the buffer is first added
to the ring. It is unnecessary to magically restore the lexer
styles upon rubout of EB (very hard to implement anyway). It
is also not necessary to rerun the lexer configuration macro
upon rubout which would be hard to reconcile with SciTECO's
basic design since every side-effect should be attached to a
character.
* this means that opening buffers is slightly slower now
because of the view initialization
* on the other hand, macros with many string q-reg operations
are faster now, since the document must no longer be changed
on the buffer's view and restored later on.
* also now we can make a difference between editing a document
in a view and changing the current view, which reduces UI calls
* the Document class has been retained as an abstraction about
Scintilla documents, used by QRegister Strings.
It had to be made virtual, so the view on which the document
is created can be specified by a virtual function.
There is no additional space overhead for Documents.
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normally, since SciTECO is not a library, this is not strictly
necessary since every library should use proper name prefixes
or namespaces for all global declarations to avoid name clashes.
However
* you cannot always rely on that
* Scintilla does violate the practice of using prefixes or namespaces.
The public APIs are OK, but it does define global functions/methods,
e.g. for "Document" that clashed with SciTECO's "TECODocument" class at
link-time.
Scintilla can put its definitions in a namespace, but this feature
cannot be easily enabled without patching Scintilla.
* a "SciTECO" namespace will be necessary if "SciTECO" is ever to be
turned into a library. Even if this library will have only a C-linkage
API, it must ensure it doesn't clutter the global namespace.
So the old "TECODocument" class was renamed back to "Document"
(SciTECO::Document).
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interface object definition
* they still define their own classes (e.g. InterfaceNCurses),
InterfaceCurrent is a typedef
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* Scintilla is now initialized from main() using Interface::main()
* Scintilla initialization depends on initialization of objects in the
global namespace (otherwise the Lexer catalogue may not be filled
properly and lexing may not work). Lexer modules were initialized
after SciTECO interface initialization
* merged Scintilla initialization (Interface::main()) with interface
option parsing
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this is often because of a missing "config.h" include,
but puzzles me every time...
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* CTRL/C will be a command so it is important to be able to type it directly
* aborting character processing is important because it allows aborting infinite loops
* since the loop interruption currently relies on SIGINT handling, there is only limited
support for XCurses and GTK - CTRL/C has to be typed in the terminal window.
later support for input queue polling might be added
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