Updated README. - sam - An updated version of the sam text editor. | |
git clone git://vernunftzentrum.de/sam.git | |
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parent 93ce022b61ba91792c95501669940e4620ef4f88 | |
Author: Rob King <[email protected]> | |
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:00:05 -0600 | |
Updated README. | |
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@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Basic Installation | |
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Installation and configuration is fairly simple: | |
+- You need to be running X11 of some sort. | |
+ On the Mac, `XQuartz`_ seems to work well. | |
- If you need to modify the default compile-time configuration (which is unlik… | |
copy `config.mk.def` to `config.mk` and modify as needed | |
- Run `make clean` | |
@@ -61,6 +63,7 @@ To configure sam, | |
create a `.samrc` file in your home directory. | |
The file `doc/samrc <doc/samrc>`_ file serves as a useful example of such a fi… | |
+.. _`XQuartz`: https://www.xquartz.org/ | |
.. _`desktop entry file`: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry… | |
Running Remotely | |
@@ -89,9 +92,7 @@ Compatibility | |
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Note that Deadpixi sam has extended the binary protocol spoken between sam and… | |
-That means that, | |
-in its default configuration, | |
-a Deadpixi samterm won't work with a non-Deadpixi sam | |
+That means that a Deadpixi samterm won't work with a non-Deadpixi sam, | |
nor will a Deadpixi sam work with a non-Deadpixi samterm. | |
New Features | |
@@ -157,11 +158,12 @@ Support for Tab Expansion | |
Arbitrary Encoding Support | |
This version of sam now uses the operating system's multibyte encoding fun… | |
That means that it is not limited to UTF-8, but can edit files in any enco… | |
- This also means that on modern systems, files containing codepoints outsid… | |
+ This also means that on modern systems, files containing codepoints outsid… | |
+ (as opposed to classic sam, which supported only the BMP). | |
Numerous Bug Fixes | |
This version of sam fixes some crashes and memory leaks that were in the o… | |
- It feels nice fixing a thirty year old memory leak. | |
+ It feels nice fixing a thirty year old memory leak. ☺ | |
Code Cleanup and Modernization | |
This version of sam uses C99 standard integer types everywhere, and uses a… |