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wendlers / mpfshell

A simple shell based file explorer for ESP8266 Micropython based devices ⛺
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OSX Cannot exit REPL mode using CTRL- ] combination #33

Closed fstengel closed 7 years ago

fstengel commented 7 years ago

This is not quite a duplicate of #18.

Since I upgraded my python engine to Python 3.5.3 (anaconda custom (x86_64)), I cannot exit repl using ctrl-] (or ctrl-Q) anymore.

As a matter of fact, the ctrl-] shortcut was already quite a bother: the ] key cannot be accessed directly on a French keyboard. One had to switch to a US keyboard, type the sequence and then switch back to the French keyboard. All in all, a minimum of 3 key combinations (cmd-space, ctrl-], cmd-space)

Would it be possible to have ctrl-Q (or any other) as the exit key? I tried toying with the source (mpfshell.py around line 575) by replacing chr(0x1d) by chr(0x11), but it did not change anything...

fstengel commented 7 years ago

I went ahead and looked deeper into the problem. Since I am using anaconda, most of the packages are installed using conda. However a limited subset was installed using pip. Basically, I had two versions of pyserial floating around: on installed through conda (2.7) and one through pip (3.3). The conda one taking precedence over the pip one. So I had to uninstall pyserial from conda and then uninstall/reinstall pyserial using pip and everything works as advertized.

All in all a warning: it seems the version of pyserial (2.7-py35_0) as installed by anaconda has a slight bug in that it prevents the proper use of ctrl-].

wendlers commented 7 years ago

pyserial before 3.x causes a log of pain :-/ especially the miniterm module is very buggy. I understand the problem is gone when using proper version? Thus, I close the issue.

hachpai commented 5 years ago

I got the same issue with pyserial 3.4. I've to press ctrl-$ to exit REPL on osx mojave.