[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-23, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I have to apologise: I overlooked a certain option of rlwrap: > > rlwrap -a picocom -b 115200 --imap lfcrlf,crcrlf -s /usr/local/bin/msend > /dev/ttyACM0 > > or > > rlwrap -a tio -b 115200 -d 8 -s 1 -p none -m INLCRNL /dev/ttyACM0 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 05:12 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: The 3270 was completely screen-oriented. An entire screen was loaded from the host. That screen included fields with various attributes (e.g. editable vs. read-only). You could edit whatever was editable on the screen, and then when you hit

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-22, Grant Taylor wrote: > Aside: Now my brain is trying to remember the old differences between > telnet and 3270 / 5250. I think that telnet was inherently line > oriented (by default) and 3270 / 5250 were something else (but I don't > remember

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-22, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 05/22/2018 02:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Just to be pedantic, ckermit isn't a terminal emulator. It's a serial >> comm package that will connect a serial port to whatever terminal/tty >> you used to run the ckermit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 02:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: Just to be pedantic, ckermit isn't a terminal emulator. It's a serial comm package that will connect a serial port to whatever terminal/tty you used to run the ckermit command. It's also a file transfer protocol, but that's pretty much irrelevant

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-22, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 05/22/2018 12:45 PM, David M. Fellows wrote: >> Since you want to blast to the past... kermit may do what you >> need. Back in the day it connected everything to everything. >> See http://www.kermitproject.org/ emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 01:00 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Pro-tip: if running emacs on the remote machine, make sure your terminal-connection does not interpret Control-S as a STOP signal, i.e. anything to do with XON/XOFF you do NOT want enabled in your shell-connection. Just to clarify, this is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 22. mai 2018 20:28, skrev Ian Zimmerman: > On 2018-05-22 12:00, Grant Taylor wrote: > >> You might also want to check out using vim or emacs as they have >> terminal emulators built in. They might be able to apply some command >> line history / editing (in a round about way). > Indeed, if

[gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

2018-05-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-05-22 12:00, Grant Taylor wrote: > You might also want to check out using vim or emacs as they have > terminal emulators built in. They might be able to apply some command > line history / editing (in a round about way). Indeed, if there isn't a prepackaged way the next easiest is