From 1ceb0923baeb9d555c5dcc1f7e126b81673ad767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "B. Watson" Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:40:53 -0400 Subject: add some docs --- doc/ui.txt | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/ui.txt (limited to 'doc/ui.txt') diff --git a/doc/ui.txt b/doc/ui.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..efaab64 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/ui.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +The user interface is pretty sparse. Incoming IRC messages are printed, +and your input line is marked by the regular Atari cursor. Text you +enter is displayed in inverse video. If IRC messages are received while +you're entering an input line, they're printed correctly without being +intermixed with your input. + +The Atari character set lacks some commonly used ASCII characters. Most +noticeable on IRC is the ~ (tilde). FujiChat prints an inverse-video ^ +(circumflex) instead. Also missing are { and } (curly braces). These +are printed as inverse-video [ ] (square brackets). There is currently +no way to type the ~ { } characters! + +Non-ASCII (Unicode/UTF-8) characters are not decoded. Generally these +print as inverse capital B followed by another inverse video character +(these are the raw UTF-8 encoded bytes). + +There are a few keyboard commands available. Normal Atari editing doesn't +work (cursor keys, crtl-insert, etc). The maximum input length is 256 +characters: if you try to type more than that, the bell will ring, +and further keystrokes (other than Enter or backspace) will be ignored. + +At the start of an empty line: + + Control-N: shows list of users on the current channel (same as + the /names command). + + Control-W: shows more detailed list of users on the current channel + (same as the /who command). + + Tab: inserts "/msg user", where user is the last user you received + a private message from. + +In the middle of a line: + + Shift-Delete or Control-U: delete the line you're typing. + + Control-W: delete the last word you typed (back to and including + the last space, or to the start of the line if there's + no space). + + Backspace: delete the last character typed, as usual. -- cgit v1.2.3