[Buildroot] command line editing

[Buildroot] command line editing

[Woody Wu]

Hi,

Running with buildroot generated root filesyste, I found the shell don't
have completed line editing capability. Backspace and DEL keys work, but
Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E do not.  Maybe this is not the right list to ask the
question, but don't know where should I go.

Thanks in advance.

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[Buildroot] command line editing

[Steve Calfee]

Research Busybox. It is highly configurable. However it is also a very
small replacement for your favorite shell (whatever that is). However,
buildroot will allow you to select bash (and others) as your shell.

Steve


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Running with buildroot generated root filesyste, I found the shell don't
> have completed line editing capability. Backspace and DEL keys work, but
> Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E do not.  Maybe this is not the right list to ask the
> question, but don't know where should I go.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then
> _______________________________________________
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[Buildroot] command line editing

[Woody Wu]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:21:27PM -0700, Steve Calfee wrote:
> Research Busybox. It is highly configurable. However it is also a very
> small replacement for your favorite shell (whatever that is). However,
> buildroot will allow you to select bash (and others) as your shell.
> 
> Steve

Thanks Steve.  But I searched throught the busybox configuration menu,
did not find how to switch shell. Can you please tell me?

> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Running with buildroot generated root filesyste, I found the shell don't
> > have completed line editing capability. Backspace and DEL keys work, but
> > Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E do not.  Maybe this is not the right list to ask the
> > question, but don't know where should I go.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then
> > _______________________________________________
> > buildroot mailing list
> > buildroot at busybox.net
> > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
> >

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[Buildroot] command line editing

[Gustavo Zacarias]

On 07/24/2013 04:35 AM, Woody Wu wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:21:27PM -0700, Steve Calfee wrote:
>> Research Busybox. It is highly configurable. However it is also a very
>> small replacement for your favorite shell (whatever that is). However,
>> buildroot will allow you to select bash (and others) as your shell.
>>
>> Steve
> 
> Thanks Steve.  But I searched throught the busybox configuration menu,
> did not find how to switch shell. Can you please tell me?

Like Baruch said for netcat, this also applies to shells since there are
many in busybox... enable "Show packages that are also provided by
busybox" and go into the "Shell and utilities" category, which,
surprisingly, contains complete full-blown shells like bash :)
Regards.