Re: [Lush-users] reading single characters from stdin in the shell?

[Ralf J. <jue...@cs...>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, L=E9on Bottou wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Ralf Juengling wrote:
>> signals, ok. But a hypothetic 'read-char' function that switches
>> to tty raw mode, waits for one character, then switches back to
>> cooked mode and returns the character, would not have to deal with
>> errors.
>
> But you will still have to handle graphic events
> and make sure the thing interacts nicely with readline.

ugh, that's right.

> Check the function console_wait_for_char() in unix.c.
> This is called from within readline while the terminal is in raw mode
> (readline uses raw mode to implement line editing).
> The readline functions rl_prep_terminal() and rl_deprep_terminal()

ok, thanks for the pointers.

Ralf