Simple Line Editor

[Joel Sherrill]

On 03/02/2010 09:59 AM, Till Straumann wrote:
> Eric Norum wrote:
>    
>> This looks like an interesting project.  As the web page says,
>> functionality somewhat like readline would be very useful.
>>
>> The one big requirement is that the code be reentrant to allow for
>> multiple ssh or telnet 'logins' to the RTEMS machine.  This is
>> currently the major shortcoming in readline (and the similar 'tecla'
>> project) since they rely on the termcap library which is non-reentrant.
>>      
> You can build 'tecla' without using curses, ncurses or termcap and you get a
> very nice, re-entrant line editor (assumes/supports an ANSI terminal only).
>
> FWIW
>    
That looks like a nice alternative. Any idea on how big the
resulting library is?

It might be better to

(1) verify this meets our technical requirements,
(2) port it.
(3) get it to build as part of cpukit.
(4) change shell/monitor methods to use it via providing
      new implementations of what they call.

There is no point in reinventing the wheel.

--joel


> -- Till
>    
>> A way to limit the scope to make the project more tractable would be
>> to support only the ANSI terminal control sequences.  This isn't that
>> big a restriction nowadays when a 'terminal' is likely an emulation
>> program running on another computer.
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Gokul Sudhakaran wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I recently installed rtems on my system and have been browsing
>>> through some of the open projects in the rtems wiki pages. I am
>>> interested in implementing the Simple Line Editor project.
>>> (http://www.rtems.com/wiki/index.php/SimpleLineEditor).
>>>
>>> I would appreciate it if someone could help me in getting a clear
>>> idea about the problem, any examples or sites that i could refer.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards
>>> Gokul
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Eric Norum
>> wenorum at lbl.gov<mailto:wenorum at lbl.gov>
>>
>>
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