X-Git-Url: http://git.nikiroo.be/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=1e2b7e9d4f2f1e7abbbf7efe4c9f64a5ceb6dd90;hb=1d99a38f2b0f1f6674a21ba8b17be28bc7a34035;hp=7e4a0e509a4e48edf0758ad2b81cd890acf82f61;hpb=be72cb5ccbd42fe304c0acafc380c5636f0d03a2;p=fanfix.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7e4a0e5..1e2b7e9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -196,6 +196,14 @@ The following properties control features of Jexer: be faster on slower systems but also more likely to have screen tearing. Default: true. + jexer.TTerminal.ptypipe + ----------------------- + + Used by jexer.TTerminalWindow. If true, spawn shell using the + 'ptypipe' utility rather than 'script'. This permits terminals to + resize with the window. ptypipe is a separate C language utility, + available at https://github.com/klamonte/ptypipe. Default: false. + Known Issues / Arbitrary Decisions @@ -213,19 +221,19 @@ ambiguous. This section describes such issues. input (see the ENABLE_LINE_INPUT flag for GetConsoleMode() and SetConsoleMode()). - - TTerminalWindow launches 'script -fqe /dev/null' or 'script -q -F - /dev/null' on non-Windows platforms. This is a workaround for the - C library behavior of checking for a tty: script launches $SHELL - in a pseudo-tty. This works on Linux and Mac but might not on - other Posix-y platforms. + - TTerminalWindow by default launches 'script -fqe /dev/null' or + 'script -q -F /dev/null' on non-Windows platforms. This is a + workaround for the C library behavior of checking for a tty: + script launches $SHELL in a pseudo-tty. This works on Linux and + Mac but might not on other Posix-y platforms. - Closing a TTerminalWindow without exiting the process inside it may result in a zombie 'script' process. - - TTerminalWindow cannot notify the child process of changes in - window size, due to Java's lack of support for forkpty() and - similar. Solving this requires C, and will be pursued only if - sufficient user requests come in. + - TTerminalWindow can only notify the child process of changes in + window size if using the 'ptypipe' utility, due to Java's lack of + support for forkpty() and similar. ptypipe is available at + https://github.com/klamonte/ptypipe. - Java's InputStreamReader as used by the ECMA48 backend requires a valid UTF-8 stream. The default X10 encoding for mouse