Re: [Nettle-users] DeviceFS support for !Nettle

[James P. <ji...@go...>]

Michael Drake wrote:

> In article <122...@iy...>,
>    James Peacock <ji...@go...> wrote:
> 
>> SSH is something I'm interested in
> 
> Yes, me too.  I use an ssh binary as an ANSI task in Nettle, which works
> up to a point.

ssh exiting when I hit an arrow key is a bit of a pain. I assumed this 
is due to TaskWindow seeing a '27' input byte and causing an escape 
condition. Might be worth having a look at TaskWindow now its source 
is available.

>> as I use it a lot and there is no comprehensive solution for RISC OS at
>> present.
> 
> I nearly always have Nettle running ssh connected to a Linux computer
> running irssi, for IRC.  The main problem I have is when someone says
> something that uses a Unicode character, the display in Nettle gets
> mangled.  ZapRedraw can do Unicode characters now, but maybe Nettle needs
> to be updated to use it properly?

Perhaps. Would be possible to get UTF-8 input on RISC OS 5 working as 
well. Is there any way for Nettle to determine the character set of a 
terminal automatically?

> Also, I find that if I have two Nettle windows (running the ssh ANSI task,
> although I'm not sure that matters), then they both need to have the same
> width and height.  If I make one window have a greater height, for
> example, the other window starts displaying its content wrongly.

I noticed that LINES, ROWS and COLUMNS system variables are set by 
Nettle, presumably to communicate the size of the terminal to UNIX 
ports. Obviously these are global which could produce the weirdness 
you see.

James