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 Posted by Norman Peelman on 09/14/07 23:21 
Lars Eighner wrote: 
> The ncurses functions are such a mess (and some of it I suspect is in 
> ncurses itself) that I am thinking the easiest way to write a terminal 
> interface is simply to write ANSI directly to the terminal. 
>  
> Although the manual on the CLI refers me to readline, readline doesn't 
> seem provide a way to get a single key press, and so far as I can tell 
> doesn't provide a reference to how to get a single keypress.  I reckon 
> some widgets would be more spiffy with keypresses instead of whole lines. 
>  
> How can I get keypresses? 
>  
 
If you're on Windows, you can't. You have to press the enter key to  
'send' the input. Unix/Linux it's supposed to work as expected. Haven't  
tried it yet though. 
 
Norm
 
  
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