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Here is the meta-intel-edison that builds, tries to stay up to date. Master is based on Yocto Poky Gatesgarth LTS 5.10.yy vanilla kernels. It builds a 32bit kernel (Gatesgarth branch 64bit) with ACPI enabled and corresponding rootfs. Telegram group: https://t.me/IntelEdison Web-site:
https://edison-fw.github.io/meta-intel-edison/
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nano text editor #80

Closed mwallnoefer closed 4 years ago

mwallnoefer commented 4 years ago

I propose to add the nano text editor to the manifest (https://github.com/edison-fw/meta-intel-edison/blob/master/docs/edison-image-edison.manifest) as an alternative to vi, for the sake of simplicity of its UI but also its availability in the original Yocto image.

Btw. does the apt package manager work out of the box? I couldn't find any instructions about how to configure repositories for installing packages etc...

htot commented 4 years ago

I didn't know nano was included, but sure why not.

You can build a package using bitbake somepackage and then follow instructions here to create a repo and install packages from the repo onto edison. If you have time and space you can probably bitbake world or something similar (I haven't tried).

mwallnoefer commented 4 years ago

For now I have added this line to out/current/build/conf/local.conf:

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " nano"

But I do not know how it could be added per default.

htot commented 4 years ago

I goes directly into https://github.com/edison-fw/meta-intel-edison/blob/master/meta-intel-edison-distro/recipes-core/images/edison-image.bb

mwallnoefer commented 4 years ago

Something like this https://github.com/edison-fw/meta-intel-edison/commit/b5a654003a9cb581559980a14844161155accd0c (I guess that _sketchcheck should belong to Arduino)?

mwallnoefer commented 4 years ago

@htot Could we merge something like my patch? Should I open an apposite pull request?

htot commented 4 years ago

Sure. I guess it should go into warrior , did you see my comments at the bottom of b5a6540?

htot commented 4 years ago

I merged your patches into warrior, thanks. They will eventually reach edison-fw/master. Closing this for now.

mwallnoefer commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately the syntax highlighting support is still not enabled by default, which would be very handy when it comes to programming/debugging. I remember that I once had posted this to the Yocto package maintainer but apparently he didn't change it...😠

htot commented 3 years ago

There is a recipe option "tiny", maybe that is related? Other then that the recipe does not enable or disable stuff.

htot commented 3 years ago

Ok I figured this one out for you. The tiny option would actually disable syntax highlighting. It's on by default. All the syntax files are also packaged and installed to /usr/share/nano. The only thing missing is the nanorcfile in /etc. It seems this is not provided by the sources. I copied over the nanorc from my Ubuntu and voila, colors.

I see that debian adds nanorc in their nano_5.4-2.debian.tar.xz sauce. So you could send a patch for the nano recipe to package nanorc to the openembedded ML, or we could add modified nano recipe to meta-intel-edison (that will eventually get pickup by layers.openembedded.org, or write a bbappend so we always get latest nano with our own sauce.

mwallnoefer commented 3 years ago

Let's see what the openembedded nano package maintainer responds us.