Bug#562029: use the standard readline library

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:06:49AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Package: asterisk
> Version: 1:1.6.2.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Asterisk should use the standard readline library, that way C-r could
> search back etc.

Asterisk uses editline rather than readline.

> 
> By the way, perhaps the
> CLI> prompt should be AST> instead.

That indicates you run 'asterisk' yourself and don't have a asterisk
daemon running. This is discourged. The Debian package is configured to
have an init.d script. There is a separate command, 'rasterisk' (which
is exactly the same as 'asterisk -r') to issue commands to it.

When you connect via asterisk -r, the prompt is:

  YOURHOSTNAME*CLI

sweetmorn:~# asterisk -r
Asterisk 1.6.2.0~rc7-0.7860, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2009 Digium, Inc. and
others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk 1.6.2.0~rc7-0.7860 currently running on sweetmorn (pid = 4330)
sweetmorn*CLI>

Alternatively, you can set ASTERISK_PROMPT in the envirnment:

ASTERISK_PROMPT='%h*AST> ' rasterisk
sweetmorn:~# ASTERISK_PROMPT='%H*AST> ' rasterisk
Asterisk 1.6.2.0~rc7-0.7860, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2009 Digium, Inc. and
others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk 1.6.2.0~rc7-0.7860 currently running on sweetmorn (pid = 4330)
sweetmorn*AST>

All this is well-documented in, well, hmm, main/asterisk.c in the source
tree :-(

  http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6.2/main/asterisk.c

(Look for 'ASTERISK_PROMPT' to see the exact available special % codes)

> 
> Also one can't dial a number from the bash command line in one step
> without the daemon running.
> One needs to break it into two parts,
> $ asterisk -c
> CLI> console dial 123455
> There is no option combination that will arrive one at the same CLI
> state, but using only line from bash. -x needs the daemon running.

If a Asterisk daemon is running:

  asterisk -r 'console dial 123455'

Also note that 'console dial' is only used to dial the "console" (sound
card + microphone). A more general method of automated dialing is the
'originate' or 'channel originate' command that can initiate a call from
any phone to anywhere in the PBX.

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