linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/5] kdb: Tweak escape handling for vi users

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Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 21:51:42 +0100
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Cc:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        patches@...aro.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] kdb: Tweak escape handling for vi users

Currently if sequences such as "\ehelp\r" are delivered to the console then
the h gets eaten by the escape handling code. Since pressing escape
becomes something of a nervous twitch for vi users (and that escape doesn't
have much effect at a shell prompt) it is more helpful to emit the 'h' than
the '\e'.

We don't simply choose to emit the final character for all escape sequences
since that will do odd things for unsupported escape sequences (in
other words we retain the existing behaviour once we see '\e[').

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
index 8f2470016250..6ee8f812d656 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ static int kdb_getchar(void)

 		*pbuf++ = key;
 		key = kdb_read_handle_escape(buf, pbuf - buf);
-		if (key < 0) /* no escape sequence; return first character */
-			return buf[0];
+		if (key < 0) /* no escape sequence; return best character */
+			return buf[pbuf - buf != 2 ? 0 : 1];
 		if (key > 0)
 			return key;
 	}
-- 
2.17.1