Some time ago, Russ said:

> Rio (the window system) doesn't send any of the typed
> characters until your press enter.  This means that,
> for example, you can edit the line using the mouse
> if you make an early mistake that takes a while to
> notice.

umm, now i understand. I was trying to get the design idea behind that
behaviour, i was sure that there where a very good reason for the lack
of fgetrune :)

> If you really want to get characters as they are typed,
> you need to put the console in raw mode, by writing
> "rawon" to /dev/consctl and then keeping the file
> descriptor for /dev/consctl open.
> 
> I believe that then Bgetrune will give you runes
> as they come in.  However, you will be in charge
> of echoing them to standard output.

thanks a lot.

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