Simple Line Editor

[Till Straumann]

The port that comes with 'cexp' has a modified 'configure.in' which 
disables that stuff
if the host-os is RTEMS.

T.

Eric Norum wrote:
> It's already an 'add-on' package but I think that it's not being built as Till suggested.  I ran the script to build this for RTEMS and the Makefile ends up with:
> DEFINES =  -DUSE_TERMINFO=1 -DHAVE_TERM_H=1 -DHAVE_CURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_SELECT=1
>
> I don't see any 'configure' option to control the termcap/terminfo/ANSI setting.  Is explicit editing of the generated Makefile the only way to get rid of the
> -DUSE_TERMINFO?
>
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
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>>>>
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