macosx/README.OSX

   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