command line editing and line length problems with serial port

[Michael S. Zick]

On Wed June 28 2006 21:25, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 9:38 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:19, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:02 am, Dave Bruce wrote:
> > > > I'm using busybox 1.00. I connect to the serial port of a TQM8260 via a
> > > > "console management switch". I telnet to that.  I've also tried a
> > > > direct serial connection with same results described below.
> > >
> > > Busybox currently has four command shells (1.3 should reduce that number
> > > a bit).  Which one are you using?  Can you reproduce your problem with
> > > one of the others?
> >
> > msh has this problem for sure, i just never got around to poking at it as
> > clearing the screen worked fine for me ;)
> 
> But is the bug in the term program, in termios, or in vodz's old command line 
> editing code?  I've had bash make lots of bad line drawing decisions over the 
> past couple of years, and never figured out if it was the bash getline 
> library or Konsole.
> 
The readline library and the readline in Bash (also a library) for years had
separate maintainers.

Beginning in time for the Bash release series three both Bash and the readline
library have the same lead maintainer.

With Bash 3.0 and Bash 3.1 they should be one and the same implementation.
Which does not mean that it might be broke, just no longer differently broke.

MikeZ
> > -mike
> 
> Rob