I made the horrible decision to upgrade and generally trick out my home workstation, and a seeming eternity later, I finally have it more or less back up, except it now prints something about "spurious native exception"s every ~3s, Never get into watercooling, kids.
- You can now output tabs (
\tin Cese, ASCII/UCS 9 "Horizontal Tab")! Tabstops are relative to the output plane, and fixed at 8 cells (#1233) - Fixed bad bug in Sixel threading engine (#2627)
- Oh! In a major change to fundamental operations, if the standard plane is scrolling, and you cause it to scroll,
notcurses_render()will now be called in the context of that output. This was done to work around a major annoyance and limitation of CLI mode, that you can't just dump output like one does in a ... CLI, and instead had to callnotcurses_render()explicitly a bunch if you wanted to actually generate all the output you wrote, and have it in the scrollback buffer etc. This was universally despised. So in a Alexanderish strike at this Gordian shit sandwich, we now callnotcurses_render(). This means you can just dump output to a scrolling standard plane, and not worry about anything except a finalnotcurses_render(). Your output will be displayed as you write it, and all of it will be displayed.
This mechanism is subject to change, but it's probably how things are working going forward.
"but dank" i hear you asking, "wouldn't this rule apply to all planes? why the special case?" the answer is no, and the reasoning is that you've chosen to engage a scrolling standard plane, which comes with a host of different behaviors. ineluctable modalities of the hackable, as stephen daedalus might say.