Add note in readme about winpty

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Zachary Yedidia
2020-02-10 22:10:01 -05:00
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@@ -175,9 +175,14 @@ the colorscheme to `simple`, or download a better terminal emulator, like
mintty. However, if you are on a recent version of Windows 10, the default
`cmd.exe` should do fine.
### Plan9, Cygwin, Mingw
### Cygwin, Mingw, Plan9
These platforms are unfortunately not supported.
These platforms are unfortunately not officially supported. In Cygwin and Mingw, micro will often work when run inside
the `winpty` utility:
```
winpty micro.exe ...
```
Micro uses the amazing [tcell library](https://github.com/gdamore/tcell), but this
means that micro is restricted to the platforms tcell supports. As a result, micro does not support