Hi All,
I am writing sort of a shell in Perl where I am trying to implement
command recall at shell prompt like you have for zsh/tcsh. So when I
press up/down arrow keys I should be able to get the previous/next
command typed.
I saw code in the web to detect arrow keys in which I have to first
put the terminal into 'cbreak' mode for getting each charcter. And the
echo is turned off. Though I am able to detect the key, since the at
least for the first charater the echo is off (I am turning on the echo
if I see that the character is a normal character) so for all the
other shell commands the first character is not echoed to the screen.
Is there a way in which I can detect the key without switching off the
echo so that all other characters can be echoed but at the same time I
don't want to echo the arrow keys when they are pressed.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
--Das
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Pratap Das wrote: I saw code in the web to detect arrow keys in which I have to first
put the terminal into 'cbreak' mode for getting each charcter. And the
echo is turned off. Though I am able to detect the key, since the at
least for the first charater the echo is off (I am turning on the echo
if I see that the character is a normal character) so for all the
other shell commands the first character is not echoed to the screen.
There's your problem. Arrow keys send escape sequences, and normal
characters are part of that escape sequence. With VT100-compatible
ANSI terminal emulators, the arrow keys send \033[A or \033[B or \033[C
or \033[D (where \033 is the ESCape character, "[" indicates what type
of escape sequence it is, an "A".."D" indicate the end of the escape
sequence).
Is there a way in which I can detect the key without switching off the
echo so that all other characters can be echoed but at the same time I
don't want to echo the arrow keys when they are pressed.
Nope. zsh/tcsh/bash all turn off echo to get a look at the characters.
The code that treats Control-P the same as up-arrow and Control-N the
same as down-arrow is done by the shells.
Anyway, why re-invent the wheel? Just "use Term::ReadLine; ".
-Joe
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