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1c1af145 | 1 | This directory contains a Mac OS X port of PuTTY/pterm, running as a |
2 | native Aqua GUI application. | |
3 | ||
4 | THIS PORT IS CURRENTLY UNFINISHED AND EXPERIMENTAL. It is _not_ | |
5 | considered to be of release quality, even if you've found it (and | |
6 | are reading this) in a PuTTY release source archive. You are welcome | |
7 | to try using it, but don't be surprised at unexpected behaviour. I'm | |
8 | not kidding. | |
9 | ||
10 | In particular, I have not yet decided where OS X PuTTY should store | |
11 | its configuration data. Options include storing it in ~/.putty to be | |
12 | compatible with Unix PuTTY, storing it wherever is compatible with | |
13 | Mac Classic PuTTY, storing it in a natively OS X location, or | |
14 | sorting out the `config-locations' wishlist item and doing all | |
15 | three. Therefore, if you start using this port and create a whole | |
16 | load of saved sessions, you should not be surprised if a future | |
17 | version of the port decides to look somewhere completely different | |
18 | for the data and therefore loses them all. If that happens, don't | |
19 | say you weren't warned! | |
20 | ||
21 | Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include: | |
22 | ||
23 | Missing terminal window features | |
24 | -------------------------------- | |
25 | ||
26 | - terminal display is horribly slow | |
27 | ||
28 | - fonts aren't configurable | |
29 | ||
30 | - several features are unimplemented in the terminal display: | |
31 | underlining, non-solid-block cursors, double-width and | |
32 | double-height line attributes, bold as font rather than as | |
33 | colour, wide (CJK) characters, combining characters. | |
34 | ||
35 | - there's no scrollbar | |
36 | ||
37 | - terminal window resizing isn't implemented yet | |
38 | ||
39 | - proper window placement (cascading down and right from the | |
40 | starting position, plus remembering previous window positions per | |
41 | the Apple HIG) is not implemented | |
42 | ||
43 | Missing alert box features | |
44 | -------------------------- | |
45 | ||
46 | - warn-on-close isn't implemented | |
47 | ||
48 | Missing input features | |
49 | ---------------------- | |
50 | ||
51 | - use of Alt+numberpad to enter arbitrary numeric character codes | |
52 | is not yet supported | |
53 | ||
54 | - there's no Meta key yet. (I'd like to at least have the | |
55 | possibility of using Command rather than Option as the Meta key, | |
56 | since the latter is necessary to send some characters, including | |
57 | the rather important # on Apple UK keyboards; but trapping | |
58 | Command-<key> and sending it to the window rather than the | |
59 | application menu requires me to make a positive effort of some | |
60 | sort and I haven't got round to it yet. For those Mac users who | |
61 | consider their Command key sacrosanct, don't worry, this option | |
62 | _will_ be configurable and _will_ be off by default.) | |
63 | ||
64 | - there's no specials menu | |
65 | ||
66 | - mouse activity isn't supported (neither cut-and-paste nor xterm | |
67 | mouse tracking) | |
68 | ||
69 | Missing terminal emulation features | |
70 | ----------------------------------- | |
71 | ||
72 | - currently no support for server-side window management requests | |
73 | (i.e. escape sequences to minimise or maximise the window, | |
74 | request or change its position and size, change its title etc) | |
75 | ||
76 | - window title is currently fixed | |
77 | ||
78 | Other missing features | |
79 | ---------------------- | |
80 | ||
81 | - no Event Log | |
82 | ||
83 | - no mid-session Change Settings |