Windows support

[zacbrown]

Looks like a neat project here and I'm interested in possibly contributing some expertise as a Windows programmer. What, in your estimation, is missing to get Micro running on Windows? (Note: I've not yet done the leg work to find out what's missing).

[zyedidia]

I actually have no idea what's missing, it might even run perfectly on Windows.

I don't own a Windows machine and have not tested micro on Windows at all. Technically it compiles (well, I was able to cross-compile a Windows exe) but I don't know whether there are any problems with it at runtime.
Tcell (the terminal library I am using for micro) says it supports Windows so that's good.

Really I guess I need someone to try and run it on Windows and report any issues here.

[mkody]

Oh well, I was trying to install it right now by just running the make command with MinGW installed, but mkdir -p ~/.micro didn't work well, it created a ~ folder in the current directory (and I've nuked my HOME when trying to delete that folder...)

I'm going to try again.

[mkody]

So the biggest issue I've got so far is that I can't use the backspace, it opens the help page.
Also, if I click somewhere, it crashes.

Micro encountered an error: runtime error: index out of range
runtime.errorString runtime error: index out of range
c:/go/src/runtime/panic.go:423 (0x435e8d)
c:/go/src/runtime/panic.go:12 (0x4347d3)
H:/Documents/dev/micro/src/cursor.go:282 (0x4055c0)
        (*Cursor).GetCharPosInLine: visualLine := strings.Replace(c.v.buf.lines[lineNum], "\t", "\t"+Spaces(tabSize-1), -1)
H:/Documents/dev/micro/src/view.go:334 (0x40ee6a)
        (*View).MoveToMouseClick: x = v.cursor.GetCharPosInLine(y, x)
H:/Documents/dev/micro/src/view.go:517 (0x40f148)
        (*View).HandleEvent: v.MoveToMouseClick(x, y)
H:/Documents/dev/micro/src/micro.go:170 (0x40ae2d)
        main: view.HandleEvent(event)
c:/go/src/runtime/proc.go:111 (0x438134)
c:/go/src/runtime/asm_386.s:1662 (0x45c7e1)

[aerth]

Mouse thing related to #16

[aerth]

[leonardosnt]

👍

[zyedidia]

Delete should work on Windows now. The only issue (I think) that remains is #23 but that's more general than just Windows, so I'm going to close this now.