Christian, If I'm not wrong NuttX already has this feature to fancy interface if you use of pdcurses library.
Greg added pdcurses some time ago and Ken Petit added support to use it over telnet BR, Alan On 8/16/20, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net> wrote: > Yeah i should have had a poke around before posting on the group. I keep > finding NuttX has so many features in the Kconfig :) > I also suggested command history then found my Spresence NSH has history, > so obviously i was not the first to think of it. > I don't want to go TOO crazy with ANSI colours. I'll experiment with a few > things and then loop back around and see what others think. > > Thanks, > Christian > > > On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 22:11, Dave Marples <d...@marples.net> wrote: > >> Hiya, >> >> Yes, there's some cheesy simple stuff in there already (mainly to stop >> the >> zephyr folks throwing shade cos their terminal is prettier). At the >> moment >> it only highlights commands, responses and errors iirc, but making it >> more >> context aware would certainly be nice....it's already switched on/off by >> kconfig option. >> >> Regards >> >> Dave >> >> On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, 12:24 David Sidrane, <david.sidr...@nscdg.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Christian, >> > >> > As long as there is a Knob in Kconfig to enable / disable each feature >> > (that >> > defaults to disable) the impact is 0. >> > >> > IIRC there is a history, and some fancy-ness that was added by Dave a >> while >> > ago. Good docs and an example defconfig would will keep it maintained >> (and >> > built). Once we have scripted test running against the sim (or real HW) >> > test >> > cases will keep it from breaking. >> > >> > David >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Christian Catchpole [mailto:christ...@catchpole.net] >> > Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2020 5:52 PM >> > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org >> > Subject: Color ANSI support in nsh >> > >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I have been adding ANSI escape codes for colour support to my app’s >> console >> > output and have been experimenting with adding it to nsh itself. At a >> > minimum to colour the prompt. >> > >> > I had been thinking this is something i could develop and propose to >> > come >> > back into the mainline as a nsh kconfig option. >> > >> > But before i do, the obvious question is, has this been proposed before >> and >> > are there reasons we wouldn’t want this in NuttX? >> > >> > I’m also thinking it would be good to have a single line of command >> > history. Other configurable options could be clear screen on nsh entry >> > (I >> > added this as my app was using ANSI line positioning and resets back >> > into >> > nsh looked messy). There are all sorts of fun things which could be >> > done >> > with ANSI terminal emulation. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > See you all tonight. Where you’ll see my demo going crazy with ANSI >> colour >> > codes. >> > >> > Christian >> > >> >
