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The current XModem implementation is untested.

A Windows binary version of bytenuts would be nice as a distributable to general embedded developers.

This blog post is a good resource: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BuildyourownCommandLinewithANSIescapecodes.html

Currently Bytenuts does not free any session data. It stores the entire history if both input and output. So, this is technically a leak that is remedied by a simple memory cap.

Have a way to load back command history and output log from the previous session.

Right now if you paste in multiple lines, each one will get sent as fast as possible. A configurable delay in between commands to throttle would be nice, default could be something like 50ms.

Feature to allow for running scripts that can interact with the connected device without needing to exit the program.

Would be nice to be able to up arrow in xmodem mode and get old paths.

If you forcefully close a Bytenuts process, the outbuf.<pid>.log and inbuf.<pid>.log files will not get cleaned as the process never got the chance to rename the files as outbuf.log and inbuf.log. Could have active processes lock their cache files and if any unlocked cache files are found, delete them.

Feature to have bytenuts prepend the system time to each line

When the window gets resized to be smaller, the screen does not seem to get refreshed properly even though I explicitly redraw the output.

Command files are not loading currently, likely broken by the log file changes

I noticed that supplying bytenuts -b B115200 /dev/ttyS7 resulted in not being able to com with the device. This is because of a typo in speed_to_string would set the speed to B1152000.

Allow the user to configure the escape character from ctrl+b.

Bytenuts uses the same files for inbuf/outbuf regardless of if multiple instances of it are running. Ideally each process will have its own session, how to actually achieve that TBD.

Since I draw the screen from the bottom up, lines that are longer than the output window width just end up overwriting the lines below them.