[U-Boot] [PATCH 05/15] common/main.c: Fix function readline

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 07 January 2012 03:51:16 Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Friday 06 January 2012 15:15:29 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 December 2011 16:34:01 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > >  * Ignore ANSI escape codes for moving cursor, which are generated by
> > > 
> > > keyboard
> > 
> > this probably should be behind an appropriate CONFIG knob.  i don't think
> > this is relevant to serial users (which are the majority of boards).
> 
> I think this is also relevant to serial console too. I tried serial console
> (over USB) with Nokia N900 on computer (ANSI terminal) and if I pressed
> cursor key (UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT) it moved cursor. But in readline function
> buffer was stored ANSI sequence. So when I pressed ENTER, u-boot tried to
> execute that buffer and showed me error. But it showed error message
> something like unknown command <ansi_seq>. ansi_seq was recognized in ansi
> terminal on computer and it garbaged output. (for example if asn_seq was
> move up, error message continued on previous line...)
> 
> This patch ignore ansi codes which can be generated by curosor keys, so
> there will not be that bad error messages...

do you have CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING enabled ?  arrow keys work just fine when 
that's enabled, and if it isn't, then i think it's expected behavior that 
pressing the arrow keys would generate "junk" that u-boot wouldn't interpret.
-mike
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