Win32 `Readline Console' Author: Jan Wielemaker E-mail: J.Wielemaker@vu.nl Purpose ======= The `readline console' provides a simple, but reasonable powerful console window for running standard I/O based applications that may wish to access Windows functions. The console window is inspired by both the X11 xterm application and the GNU readline library. The text is buffered to provide for window resizing and scroll-back. When reading input by line, an Emacs like editor is provided for editing the input line. Old input lines are remembered and used by the history system. Edit functions ============== The following edit functions are provided: Control-A Beginning of line Control-B Character backward Control-C Generate interrupt Control-D Delete character forwards, or end-of-file Control-E End of line Control-F Character forwards Control-I (TAB) Complete (filename, may be programmed) Control-J (NL) Enter (make line available) Control-K Delete to end-of-line Control-M (RET) Enter (make line available) Control-N Next line in history Control-P Previous line in history Control-T Toggle characters around caret Control-U Empty line Control-V Paste Control-Z End-of-file DEL Delete character forwards BACKSPACE Delete character backwards <-, -> Move caret in line, with SHIFT down, move by word. Up, down Move in history list Mouse-bindings: Left: Start selection, dragging extends the selection. Double-click selects in `word-mode'. The selection is placed on the Windows clipboard. Middle: Paste the Windows clipboard (also Control-V). Right: Extends the selection. Compilation: ============ Includes a project file for MSVC 4.2. Please inspect the settings first. plterm.dll is made from console.c, edit.c and history.c Settings: ========= Settings are kept in the Windows registry under the key Software\\\Console Where is SWI, unless compiled with a different setting for RLC_VENDOR is the basename of the program without extension (i.e. plwin for the program C:\Program Files\pl\bin\plwin.exe). Maintained values on this key are: Name Type Description ================================================================ SaveLines int (200-100000) # lines saved for scrollback Width int (20-300) # width in characters Height int (5-100) # height in characters X int (0-screen-width) # X-position of window Y int (0-screen-height) # Y-position of window FaceName str # Font info (settable using FontFamily int # extension of Windows menu) FontSize int FontWeight int FontCharSet int