Re: [Flashforth-devel] ff-shell and the Raspberry Pi

[Peter J. <pe...@me...>]

Pete,
    Good to see the Tcl program in use.  Going back a couple of months, 
I had been using Tcl on RaspberryPi's for some simple pressure 
indicators with a nice large display.  Recently, I've arrived in Paris 
for some study leave and I've brought a couple of FF boards with me so I 
could work on some long-delayed updates to the Elements-of-FF document.  
Just connected one up and it works nicely.

About command history in ff-shell.tcl: I think that it would be easy to 
implement it if I introduce an entry box for the keyboard input.  We can 
have cursor movement and editing within the entry and some command 
history accessible with up down keys.  On seeing the Enter key, the 
content of the entry box would be sent to the FF microcontroller.  
Characters coming back from the microcontroler would be sent to the 
current (large) text widget. The present highlight and paste 
(Control-Shift-v) operation could be redirected to the entry box such 
that the characters are inserted there and not sent to the micro until 
Enter is pressed. Would this interaction suit?

Also, I did try to write to directly you a couple of times over that 
past months but my mail would bounce back from your internet provider.  
Is there a simple way to register with them?

Cheers,
Peter J.


On 10/08/16 23:49, Pete Zawasky wrote:
> Hi Peter, Michael and all,
>
> ff-shell.tcl  is working very well here on a Raspberry Pi 2 with the
> latest Raspbian.
>
> I am using the RPi to communicate with various PIC18 and PIC24
> development boards and ff-shell beats gtkterm.
>
> Peter -- has anyone added a command history function to quickly repeat
> past keyboard entries?
>
> TNX,   Pete
>