Re: Serial Line boot may not properly clear the screen

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello !

No at the moment Klaus and I keep the command line interface (this
was the status of Thursday). In `emacs' it does not look very good
at the moment (especially the amount of `^H' to blank the line, but
in "emergency" cases, `emacs' can be used. You can send amount of
`^H' or better a `^A^K' and use `emacs' editing features to paste
in a new line.

But of course, this is not the final editing method we want. It is
a question of time, idea and design to change this ...

Controlling the line editiong by `expect' is possible with the
current implementation of GRUB, I have tested it.

If I have time, I will play around with a new version of emacs, as
some chnages of the new version may affect our design also.
I do not like to "throw away" the current feature of the command line,
so I hope we find a method as Klaus in the new dumb menu, to hold
all editing functions, but also to have a good interface to cannonical
terminals.

With friendly regards
Christoph P.


"Yoshinori K. Okuji" wrote:
> 
> At Sat, 19 Jan 2002 00:32:31 +0900,
> Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Ok, I'll do that. As I already know what's wrong thanks to your
> > report, I don't think it would be difficult to fix the problem.
> 
> Hmm. I think my estimation was too optimistic again. I know how I
> should fix the problem, but that requires substantial changes in the
> code. So I keep that pending for a while.
> 
> BTW, I noticed that your previous change made it nearly meaningless to
> handle a dumb terminal in get_cmdline. The reason why I rewrote
> get_cmdline was that it should be functional even with dumb
> terminals. So...
> 
> Is it necessary to stick to the current implementation of get_cmdline?
> I guess you disabled the command-line editing in the case of a dumb
> terminal, because Emacs has its own editing feature and it is available
> before sending inputs to GRUB. Generally speaking, is this a good
> assumption for dumb terminals?
> 
> Okuji
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