I've certainly noticed commandline recall problems with Bering -
uneditable multilines, and also weird behaviour with the history buffer
appears to get corrupted and adds crap to the end of some commands in
the buffer. So you're not alone :-)
Cheers
Si
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 03:38:34PM +0000, Nathan Angelacos said:
> > It pains me to realize that I've been using command
> > recall in Ox, DF, and BF for a long time now. The
> > up arrow works great. My apologies for losing my mind.
>
> Perhaps you aren't losing your mind...
> Do you also have the experience that that ash seems
> to have problems with the "up-arrow" command recall
> when the command is greater than the screen width -
> you can't edit the first part of a multiline
> command? (where multiline is a long command line
> without the use of '\' ?)
>
> > Thanks for the explanation. I guess what I'm really
> > missing in filename/directoryname completion.
>
> After checking further, BusyBox ash (0.60.3) with
> command auto completion seems to work here on bering
> if you:
>
> compile EXPR into busybox, and comment out line 204
> in linuxrc:
> # expr () { exp $@ ; }
>
> Probably you could get away with not compiling in
> expr and changing line 204 to read:
> expr () { $(( $@ ; )) }
>
> But the shell gurus should comment on that theory...
>
>
> Also, at the top of linuxrc (line 30 something) there's
> a call to [, which fails since busybox hasn't been
> installed yet. Guess its a shell internal in ash, but
> a "program" in BB.
>
> The offending line is:
>
> if [ $DEBUG ] ; then
>
> A solution might be to change the line to read:
> if /bin/busybox test $DEBUG ; then
>
>
> or just define BB=/bin/busybox a little earlier in
> the script and then call
> if $BB test $DEBUG ; then
>
> That seems to run through the linuxrc without any
> errors, and gives a nice shell with auto completion
> and correct behavior in using command recall.
>
>
>
>
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