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

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 07:33 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: putty (has a gui and minimal configuration possibilities for serial connections and bunch more...) plink is the command line / text equivalent of PuTTY, from the same authors. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

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

2018-05-22 Thread tuxic
On 05/22 03:43, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am currently exploring Mecrisp-Stellaris FORTH on a STM32F103C8 uC. > > > > To communicate with the FORTH-system I use a serlal terminal console > > like picocom. > > > > Since I am still

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

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 03:44 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: Yes - screen can hold everything until you hit enter and allow you to edit the line and do wrapping clientside. Screen also handles control codes properly. Good to know. Aside: Now my brain is trying to remember the old differences between telnet and

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

2018-05-22 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 05/22/2018 02:43 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: >> >> Have you tried screen? It may have more features than kermit by default, >> but it is intended for speaking with "smart" terminal devices and will do >> lots of

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

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 03:06 PM, David M. Fellows wrote: As a terminal emulator that has a lot of configurabilty. I'm quite curious what sort of configuration you use in (what I understand to be) a text based communications package in your day to day activities. I do so much via SSH that I don't

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

2018-05-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>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 ckermit. > >Are you advocating kermit as a protocol or as a terminal

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

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 02:43 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: Have you tried screen? It may have more features than kermit by default, but it is intended for speaking with "smart" terminal devices and will do lots of input processing. Are you saying that screen (and possibly tmux, etc.) have the ability to inject

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

2018-05-22 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > Hi > > I am currently exploring Mecrisp-Stellaris FORTH on a STM32F103C8 uC. > > To communicate with the FORTH-system I use a serlal terminal console > like picocom. > > Since I am still learning this quirky though fascinating language

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

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
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 ckermit. Are you advocating kermit as a protocol or as a terminal (emulator)

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

2018-05-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hi > >I am currently exploring Mecrisp-Stellaris FORTH on a STM32F103C8 uC. > >To communicate with the FORTH-system I use a serlal terminal console >like picocom. > >Since I am still learning this quirky though fascinating language I >really would appreciate a commandline history. > >For that I

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

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 11:54 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: Random thought:  I have no idea if Plan9's terminal emulator has any features for this or not.  It may be worth looking at.  I believe it's been ported to Linux. You might also want to check out using vim or emacs as they have terminal emulators

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

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 05/22/2018 11:39 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: I am currently exploring Mecrisp-Stellaris FORTH on a STM32F103C8 uC. #learningIsFun To communicate with the FORTH-system I use a serlal terminal console like picocom. Okay. Since I am still learning this quirky though fascinating language I

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

2018-05-22 Thread tuxic
Hi I am currently exploring Mecrisp-Stellaris FORTH on a STM32F103C8 uC. To communicate with the FORTH-system I use a serlal terminal console like picocom. Since I am still learning this quirky though fascinating language I really would appreciate a commandline history. For that I tried