Serial Monitor: Exit key combination doesn't work on international keyboards

[syntway]

In Windows the platformio serialports monitor Exit key combination Ctrl + ] does not work on international keyboards where ] is produced by a combination of keys.

For example in the standard Portuguese keyboard (Portugal and probably Brazil and other variants also), the ] character is produced by pressing Alt Gr + 8. In this case Serial Monitor never exits and one has to press Ctrl + Break to kill the program.

[ivankravets]

You can override exit key. See http://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/userguide/cmd_serialports.html#cmdoption-platformio-serialports-monitor--exit-char

[syntway]

That will send the exit char but won't quit the app itself, right? Can't platformio use an universal key combination like Ctrl + Q?
I suspect many other non-us keyboards will have this behavior...

[ivankravets]

Can't platformio use an universal key combination like Ctrl + Q?

Universal for what? No here "universal". You can configure own --exit-char. See

platformio serialports monitor --exit-char 93
--- Miniterm on /dev/cu.usbmodemFD1311: 9600,8,N,1 ---
--- Quit: ']'  |  Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H ---

# to exit use Ctrl+C+]

platformio serialports monitor --exit-char 17
--- Miniterm on /dev/cu.usbmodemFD1311: 9600,8,N,1 ---
--- Quit: Ctrl+Q  |  Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H ---

# to exit use Ctrl+Q

If you specify DIRECT ASCII code (like 93 for ]), then you need to use Ctrl+C+]``. To use direct key, please minus 64 from ASCII char. For example, ASCII code for'Q'char is81, then81-64=17. Nowplatformio serialports monitor --exit-char 17will wait forCtrl+Q`

Here is the table http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-printable-characters/box-brackets-square-brackets-closing-bracket-ascii-code-93.html

Does it help you?

[syntway]

I meant universal for all keyboards: the default you have now will work on keyboards where Ctrl + ] is a direct key combination (like the English keyboard) in others it won't work (nothing happens).
Because of this maybe it would make sense to have a default exit combination that works for everyone, like Ctrl + Q or similar.

In any case, using --exit-char works fine. I'd suggest adding the explanation above to the docs as this information is far from obvious.

Thanks, you deserve many stars, this is an awesome project! Regards!

[ivankravets]

Which --exit-char do you use? I'll add to the doc.

Thanks!

[syntway]

Ctrl + Q as you listed two posts ago: --exit-char 17

[ivankravets]

I've added to docs. What is interesting, that Ctrl+Q doesn't work for me 😞