[U-Boot] blank line repeats last command

Peter Tyser ptyser at xes-inc.com
Fri Oct 23 21:27:03 CEST 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:59 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> Frank Svendsbøe wrote:
> > I partly agree with David Collier on this matter. Before I discovered
> > this was a feature,
> > I was sure this was a bug, but I understand some of you reasoning..
> > just not all. For instance,
> > I can understand why it's handy when dumping memory, but what's the
> > rationale behind
> > having 'cp.b' repeating? It's annoying when writing large files to
> > slow (NOR) flash.
> 
> Indeed it is.
> 
> IMHO, rather than select a few "dangerous" commands to exempt from autorepeat, 
> it should be off for most commands and selectively enabled for a handful of 
> commands where it's really useful (such as autoincrement dumps).

+1 - it generally annoys me too:)

Peter



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