https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm

Scinterm is a curses platform for Scintilla that supports ncurses, PDCurses, and X/Open Curses.
https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm

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Scinterm is a curses platform for Scintilla that supports ncurses, PDCurses, and X/Open Curses.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm
• Owner: orbitalquark
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-09-10T02:18:53.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: default
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-01T00:04:15.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-01T01:21:52.478Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: curses, editors, pdcurses, scintilla, terminal
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://orbitalquark.github.io/scinterm
• Size: 1.19 MB
• Stars: 23
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: docs/README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Scinterm

Scinterm is a curses platform for [Scintilla][] that supports [ncurses][], [PDCurses][], and

X/Open Curses.



It is highly recommended to run Scinterm in a UTF-8-aware terminal with a font that supports

many UTF-8 characters ("DejaVu Sans Mono" is one of them), since Scinterm makes use of UTF-8

characters when drawing wrap symbols, some marker symbols, and call tip arrows.

[Scintilla]: https://scintilla.org

[ncurses]: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

[PDCurses]: https://pdcurses.org

## Requirements

* Scinterm 5.x requires Scintilla 5.4.2 - 5.x.

* Scinterm 5.0 requires Scintilla 5.3.0 - 5.4.1.

* Scinterm 4.x requires Scintilla 5.3.0 - 5.4.1.

* Scinterm 3.2 requires Scintilla 5.1.4 - 5.2.4.

* Scinterm 3.1 requires Scintilla 5.1.0 - 5.1.1.

* Scinterm 3.0 requires Scintilla 3.20.0 - 3.21.0.

* Scinterm 2.0 requires Scintilla 3.20.0 - 3.21.0.

* Scinterm 1.12 requires Scintilla 3.11.0 - 3.11.2.

* Scinterm 1.11 requires Scintilla 3.10.0 - 3.10.6.

* Scinterm 1.10 requires Scintilla 3.8.0.

* Scinterm 1.9 requires Scintilla 3.7.5 - 3.7.6.

* Scinterm 1.8 requires Scintilla 3.6.3 - 3.7.4.

* Scinterm 1.7 requires Scintilla 3.6.3 - 3.7.4.

* Scinterm 1.6 requires Scintilla 3.5.5 - 3.6.2.

* Scinterm 1.5 requires Scintilla 3.5.2 - 3.5.4.

* Scinterm 1.4 requires Scintilla 3.5.0 - 3.5.1.

* Scinterm 1.3 requires Scintilla 3.4.2 - 3.4.4.

* Scinterm 1.2 requires Scintilla 3.3.7 - 3.4.1.

* Scinterm 1.1 requires Scintilla 3.2.2 - 3.3.6.

* Scinterm 1.0 requires Scintilla 3.2.2 - 3.3.6.

## Download

Scinterm releases can be found [here][].

[here]: https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm/releases

## Compile

After downloading Scinterm, it is recommended to unzip it into the top-level directory of an

instance of Scintilla, similar to other Scintilla platforms like *gtk/* and *win32/*. After

that, go into the Scinterm directory and run `make patch` followed by `make` to build the usual

*../bin/scintilla.a*.

You can optionally build the demo application, jinx, by going into *jinx/* and running

`make`. Pressing the `q` key quits the demo. Note that the demo assumes [lexilla][]

is a sibling to the *../../../scintilla* directory, and that it has been built

(i.e. *../../../lexilla/bin/liblexilla.so* exists).

[lexilla]: https://www.scintilla.org/Lexilla.html

## Usage

Scinterm's Application Programming Interface [(API) documentation][] is located in the project's

*docs/* directory and covers how to create and interact with a Scintilla widget in a terminal

application.

[(API) documentation]: api.md

## Curses Compatibility

Scinterm lacks some Scintilla features due to the terminal's constraints:

* Any settings with alpha values are not supported.

* Autocompletion lists cannot show images (pixmap surfaces are not supported).  Instead, they

  show the first character in the string passed to [`SCI_REGISTERIMAGE`][].

* Buffered drawing is not supported.

* Caret settings like period, line style, and width are not supported (terminals use block

  carets with their own period definitions).

* Code pages other than UTF-8 have not been tested and it is possible some curses implementations

  do not support them.

* Drag and drop is not supported.

* Edge lines are not displayed properly (the line is drawn over by text lines).

* Extra ascent and descent for lines is not supported.

* Fold lines cannot be drawn above or below lines.

* Hotspot underlines are not drawn on mouse hover (`surface->FillRectangle()` is not supported).

* Indicators other than `INDIC_ROUNDBOX` and `INDIC_STRAIGHTBOX` are not drawn (`surface->LineTo()`

  and `surface->FillRectangle()` are not supported for drawing indicator shapes and pixmap

  surfaces are not supported). Translucent drawing and rounded corners are not supported either.

* Some complex marker types are not drawn properly or at all (pixmap surfaces are not supported

  and `surface->LineTo()` is not supported for drawing some marker shapes).

* Mouse cursor types are not supported.

* Up to 16 colors are supported, regardless of how many colors the terminal supports. They are

  (in "0xBBGGRR" format): black (`0x000000`), red (`0x000080`), green (`0x008000`), yellow

  (`0x008080`), blue (`0x800000`), magenta (`0x800080`), cyan (`0x808000`), white (`0xC0C0C0`),

  light black (`0x404040`), light red (`0x0000FF`), light green (`0x00FF00`), light yellow

  (`0x00FFFF`), light blue (`0xFF0000`), light magenta (`0xFF00FF`), light cyan (`0xFFFF00`),

  and light white (`0xFFFFFF`). Even if your terminal uses a different color map, you must use

  these color values with Scintilla; unrecognized colors are set to white by default. For some

  terminals, you may need to set a lexer style's `bold` attribute in order to use the light

  color variant.

* Some styles settings like font name, font size, and italic do not display properly (terminals

  use one only font, size and variant).

* X selections (primary and secondary) are not integrated into the clipboard.

* Zoom is not supported (terminal font size is fixed).

* When using the mouse in the Windows console, Shift+Double-click extends selections and

  quadruple-clicking inside a selection collapses it.

[`SCI_REGISTERIMAGE`]: https://scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_REGISTERIMAGE

## Support

- [API Documentation](api.md)

- [Project page](https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm)

- [Issue tracker](https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm/issues)

- [Credits](thanks.md)

You can contact me personally at code att foicica.com.