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

[Pete Z. <pza...@pz...>]

Hi Peter,

First of all, enjoy the time in Paris.  Sounds great.

Thanks for the thoughts on the "Command History" implementation for 
ff-shell.tcl .
That would be very helpful here.  I have just gotten too used to it in 
other terminal programs.
Perhaps the "Command History" could be optional at start-up or even be a 
Menu selection.
Let me know if I can help test it out.

As far as the bounced emails, I have gotten a couple of reports of this 
lately. Even from customers!
We have not been able to trace the root cause and it has not been 
consistent.

Pete



On 9/13/2016 4:40 PM, Peter Jacobs wrote:
> 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.
>
>