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Terminal Emulator oddity
I decided to reward myself for two smoke-free weeks with an hour of playing with my new Pocket Edge (running Ermine) this morning. As I'm a sort of linux-y geek, I started by browsing through the file system using the Terminal Emulator (Dev Tools -> Terminal Emulator) with an eye toward entering 'busybox ls -alR > /MEDIA/USB0/some-file-name" to make a full file system listing that I could transfer to my PC.
It took me a while to find the "<", "|", and ">" keys on the soft keyboard, but eventually I did. What surprised me was that I couldn't manage to input any digits at all. The digits worked fine in Notepad, so it seems to be a Terminal Emulator "feature." I next tried a USB keyboard. Most of its keys worked as expected, and entering digits into Terminal Emulator worked fine. Those pesky "<" and ">" characters were not on top of the ',' and '.' keys -- they've moved to ALT-B and ALT-N respectively. Surprisingly, the HOME key took me to the home screen and both the END and F4 keys rotated the screen clockwise (skipping the upside-down orientation) with each press. The F1 key gave me the application menu and the F3 key took me to the Contacts app. So ... I can type the command I want with a USB keyboard, but would have to disconnect it and shove in a USB drive really fast if I want it to work . . . Thus I have a question for you all: Can anybody get numbers "typed" on the soft keyboard accepted by Terminal Emulator? If so, are you using a big Edge? a Pocket? Running Ermine? Dingo? If not, do you care? Thanks for taking the time to check. |
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Confirmed on my PE (ermine). No numbers on the soft keyboard. Couldn't get it to switch to another input method either (I've got DioPen and Grafitti on mine)
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#3 |
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I installed Better Terminal Emulator Magic from AndAppStore, and that worked with the numeric keys fine.
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Twichy, congratulations on 2 smoke-free weeks!!
![]() That is really hard -- I know! I had to move away from everyone and everything I associated with cigarettes in order to finally, completely, quit. And many many years later I still sometimes have cravings. ![]() ![]() Excellent reward system you've got for yourself!! ![]() |
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Interestingly, Better Terminal Emulator Magic has a *different* quirk. I was not able to get the enter key to work from the alpha portion of the keyboard, but it did work when I switched into the numeric!
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Thanks for looking into this for me, folks. I'll have to investigate some of the alternate keyboards on the market in a couple of weeks -- good to know that at least one will (quirkily) work.
Oh, and @5thWiggle, seems that Terminal app doesn't have permission to write to /sdcard (or any other place in on-board memory that I could find). I don't have a mini-sd plugged in yet, so I don't know about that. I ran out of time while trying to convince Terminal to talk to /media/USB0. @Filark -- thanks for your best wishes. Having a PE waiting for me is a good motivator. |
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