serial port via minicom: can minicom use line-editing (i.e. readline functionality)?

I am successfully talking to a board connected over a serial port interface to my PC. I can both send and receive bytes - but for interactive applications executing on the board, that try to read inputs from their stdin, minicom doesn't seem to offer any kind of *readline*-like editing functionality: // code running on the embedded board printf("Reading a number: ") scanf("%d", &i); In minicom: $ minicom -D /dev/ttyS0 -b 38400 ... Reading a number: 1a^H Once I enter an 'a', I can't backspace over it. Note there's no shell or anything in between here - this is plain minicom over a serial line, nothing more. screen /dev/ttyS0 38400 seems to work fine - allowing me to edit the line and only sending it to the serial when I press ENTER. Can minicom be configured to do the same?