readline() (and hence NSH) now accept the DEL character as well as the Backspace character for the backspace functionality

git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/nuttx/code/trunk@4428 42af7a65-404d-4744-a932-0658087f49c3
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patacongo 2012-02-25 20:46:18 +00:00
parent 04a561a8b4
commit 68b07a2da4
2 changed files with 27 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -192,3 +192,7 @@
* apps/examples/qencoder: Add a quadrature driver test. * apps/examples/qencoder: Add a quadrature driver test.
* apps/examples/ostest/fpu.c: Add a test to verify that FPU registers * apps/examples/ostest/fpu.c: Add a test to verify that FPU registers
are properly saved and restored on context switches. are properly saved and restored on context switches.
* apps/system/readline/readline.c: readline() will now treat either a
backspace or a DEL character as a backspace (i.e., deleting the character
to the left of the cursor). This makes NSH less dependent on particular
keyboard mappings of the Backspace key. Submitted by Mike Smith.

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@ -68,6 +68,13 @@
#undef CONFIG_EOL_IS_BOTH_CRLF #undef CONFIG_EOL_IS_BOTH_CRLF
#define CONFIG_EOL_IS_EITHER_CRLF 1 #define CONFIG_EOL_IS_EITHER_CRLF 1
/* Some special characters */
#define BS 0x08 /* Backspace */
#define ESC 0x1b /* Escape */
#define LBRACKET 0x5b /* Left bracket */
#define DEL 0x7f /* DEL */
/**************************************************************************** /****************************************************************************
* Private Type Declarations * Private Type Declarations
****************************************************************************/ ****************************************************************************/
@ -219,7 +226,7 @@ ssize_t readline(FAR char *buf, int buflen, FILE *instream, FILE *outstream)
{ {
/* Yes, is it an <esc>[, 3 byte sequence */ /* Yes, is it an <esc>[, 3 byte sequence */
if (ch != 0x5b || escape == 2) if (ch != LBRACKET || escape == 2)
{ {
/* We are finished with the escape sequence */ /* We are finished with the escape sequence */
@ -238,9 +245,16 @@ ssize_t readline(FAR char *buf, int buflen, FILE *instream, FILE *outstream)
} }
} }
/* Check for backspace */ /* Check for backspace
*
* There are several notions of backspace, for an elaborate summary see
* http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html. There is no clean solution.
* Here both DEL and backspace are treated like backspace here. The
* Unix/Linux screen terminal by default outputs DEL (0x7f) when the
* backspace key is pressed.
*/
else if (ch == 0x08) else if (ch == BS || ch == DEL)
{ {
/* Eliminate that last character in the buffer. */ /* Eliminate that last character in the buffer. */
@ -249,9 +263,12 @@ ssize_t readline(FAR char *buf, int buflen, FILE *instream, FILE *outstream)
nch--; nch--;
#ifdef CONFIG_READLINE_ECHO #ifdef CONFIG_READLINE_ECHO
/* Echo the backspace character on the console */ /* Echo the backspace character on the console. Always output
* the backspace character because the VT100 terminal doesn't
* understand DEL properly.
*/
readline_consoleputc(ch, outfd); readline_consoleputc(BS, outfd);
readline_consoleputs(g_erasetoeol, outfd); readline_consoleputs(g_erasetoeol, outfd);
#endif #endif
} }
@ -259,7 +276,7 @@ ssize_t readline(FAR char *buf, int buflen, FILE *instream, FILE *outstream)
/* Check for the beginning of a VT100 escape sequence */ /* Check for the beginning of a VT100 escape sequence */
else if (ch == 0x1b) else if (ch == ESC)
{ {
/* The next character is escaped */ /* The next character is escaped */