In debug mode using the JTAG UART, the Nios II Terminal Console window in the IDE echos back characters entered from the console, and handles destructive backspace characters. When I compile in release mode and use the stand-alone nios2-terminal.exe application, no characters are echoed, and the backspace seems to be ignored. The Nios application in the FPGA receives all of the characters typed, but the lack of real-time visual feedback is annoying. Outputs to the console from the Nios application are displayed the same in both cases. I can conditionally compile the release mode code to echo characters, but the echo does not occur until after the return key is pressed.
I can find no nios2-terminal command line parameters that will enable character echo. Does anybody know how to do this, or is there a way of calling the IDE Nios II Terminal Console as a stand-alone application?
