linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] kdb: Tweak escape handling for vi users

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:12:09 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Patch Tracking <patches@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] kdb: Tweak escape handling for vi users

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:46 AM Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thompson@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> 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(-)

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>