This has been more of an exercise. The performance of Msftedit.dll
is rather abysmal, and its interface isn't the most accomodating.
That said, the frontend is quite usable, at least on Windows 10+.
There seem to be only a few things it could bring to the table,
compared to xP, making it barely worth the effort:
- saner keyboard controls,
- GVIM integration,
- slightly improved resource usage.
For this, we needed a wire protocol. After surveying available options,
it was decided to implement an XDR-like protocol code generator
in portable AWK. It now has two backends, per each of:
- xF, the X11 frontend, is in C, and is meant to be the primary
user interface in the future.
- xP, the web frontend, relies on a protocol proxy written in Go,
and is meant for use on-the-go (no pun intended).
They are very much work-in-progress proofs of concept right now,
and the relay protocol is certain to change.
This commit constitutes a breaking change to old configurations.
All behaviour.* options have now become general.*, with the following
few renames as exceptions:
- editor_command -> editor
- backlog_helper -> pager
- backlog_helper_strip_formatting -> pager_strip_formatting
I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like some people might not like
jokes about the Holocaust.
On a more serious note, the project has become more serious over
the 7 or so years of its existence.
So far it's only been mentioned in the NEWS file,
which is definitely not sufficient.
It would be good to move this kind of stuff out from README.adoc.
When fancy-prompt.lua is enabled, tho prompt is two-lined
and a simple PageUp would skip one line of content.
It works slightly better than it should: when there's under
a page of content to scroll, there is no shift at all.
I've come to the conclusion that copyright mostly just stands in the way
of software development. In my jurisdiction I cannot give up my own
copyright and 0BSD seems to be the closest thing to public domain.
The updated mail address, also used in my author/committer lines,
is shorter and looks nicer. People rarely interact anyway.
