On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > Catching up... > > ctrl-x is not a good escape character, it's the "attention" key for > emacs. The traditional (telnet) escape character is ctrl-right bracket > (ascii 29) which as far as I know doesn't conflict with anything. Any > strong opinions if I change it? (I've done it for now but can switch it > back if there's strong opposition. Trying to get a release out...)
i thought ctrl-x was weird too, but wanted to duplicate an existing wheel rather than start on a new one :-) the other thing that seemed odd to me was that there was no support for _actually_ sending the escape character. > I have a loop that calculates all the serial speed values (through 4 > megabits/second) but unfortunately the serial devices I have lying > around ignore the serial speed setting. (I did -s 115200 and -s 9600 and > it behaves identically.) Alas, fairly common thing with USB to serial > converters (which tend to have a fixed speed on one side and a packet > protocol on the other; one one side you have to match the hardwired > speed, on the other speed setting is completely ignored). > > That said, you've convinced me not to try to make most of the code > common because nothing else (except stty) really cares about serial > ports. (Unless I add a pppd which nobody's asked for yet. :) > > Rob -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
