[BusyBox] enhanced cmdedit

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Wed Jan 21 10:41:56 UTC 2004


Stefani,

> below a patch against busybox-1.00-pre5.
> 
> - First it fix a small bug in the tab command completion. 
> 
>   Currently the tab command completion use only the pathes in the 
>   enviroment variable path and not the acutal defined path variable in the shell.

But your patch to old CVS version. New version don`t have this problem.
Your variant is bloat.

> - Second it enables incremental search in the command history

Please make separate patchs.

>   You can use now CTRL-R for reverse incremental search and CTRL-S for
>   forward incremental search in the command history like in the bash shell. The
>   behavior is mostly like the bash shell.
>   This is a very especial usefull feature for embedded developer when testing and
>   working on the target.
> 
> - Third it enables to jump to the bottom or top of the history
>   
>   The page up and page down key jumps now to the top or bottom
>   of the hisotry.
> 
>   This is still also very usefull for embedded developers.

Its require new config options for can disable this undeed features.

> Please apply the patch to the current development tree if you like.

Not like ;-)


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