[Toybox] Fwd: hexedit uses VT-420 scroll ctrl sequences which dont work on tty1

[Robert Thompson]

That all works in screen, at least to some extent. Years ago I discovered I
could write a script and connect its stdin to the stdout of whatever was in
the screen, and vice versa. I think what led me to the discovery was
someone's description of how to do zmodem over SSH to a network switch (it
treated SSH like it was the serial console, expected zmodem for firmware
updates, and made no attempt to support scp).

For that matter, screen can be a pretty good substitute for picocom (and
it's commonly available everywhere). I believe that tmux removed direct
serial (and raw pty?) support in an attempt to create a more maintainable
codebase.


On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 18:56 David Seikel <onefang_toybox at dave.isageek.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:24:13 -0500 Rob Landley said :
> > On 9/24/19 1:18 AM, Jarno Mäkipää wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I now tested to run hexedit in tmux: downscroll works but upscroll
> > > does not... Well we might say its tmux fault, but lots of people
> > > use tmux nowadays. And this behavior seemed to be same in
> > > framebuffer console and xterms...
> >
> > I have a todo item to write a screen for toybox. I'll make sure this
> > works there. If you want to submit a bug report to the old one, have
> > at.
>
> Would writing a tmux be a better option than a screen?  I prefer it for
> several reasons, the major one being that I can script reading and
> writing text to what ever command is running inside tmux (in my case
> OpenSim consoles for cron'ed backups).  Mouse support is handy to.
>
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