F12 straight into bash

Morning all,

I use the bash port on ROS quite a bit and was wondering if there is an easy way to autorun bash when I hit F12 (and ideally ctrl-F12 too.) This would be complicated by the fact that, ideally I would want to be able to drop into the normal ROS command mode for configuring and managing ROS such as modules etc… from bash.

Is there a SWI I can listen to for entry into CLI mode?

Cheers,
Nick

Try messing with the ShellCLI
A quick look at the ShellCLI code suggests it does the “jump to the bottom of the screen” and * prompt itself, I think the best you can hope for is to write a module that duplicates the StartCode section of ShellCLI (calling ShellCLI_Create and Destroy to handle the WIMP bits) but does its own thing instead of just passing things to OS_CLI. Or modifying ShellCLI to do it.

An alternative – I wonder if ‘*Key 12 bash’ would do the trick. You’d have to press F12 twice, but it might work…

For taskwindows it’s different – perhaps somehow have Ctrl-F12 run a TaskObey file that invokes bash? ‘*TaskWindow bash’ should do it, it’s just finding an easy way to launch that command.

What do you use bash for, out of interest? It seemed quite unstable last time I used it?

Is there a SWI I can listen to for entry into CLI mode?

No.

All that “CLI mode” is, is some variation of:

REPEAT
  INPUTLINE ">" A$
  IF A$>"" THEN OSCLI A$
UNTIL A$=""

So you’re going to have to do some very devious interception of CLIV based on some interesting heuristics.