From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: read -sq
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 09:54:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b50a8fcb-65d2-02c3-ab93-0ceb7a067fe0@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7Y61xDwoONbL8c0EBMecck9oXavoOzBuDHDUu89d5bN1A@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021-02-21 9:31 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Not really. As the doc for -q says, "Read only one character from the
> terminal", but the arrow keys actually send more than one character.
> In the case of down-arrow those are ESC, bracket, and B, so read
> consumes and discards the ESC and then whatever comes after it gets
> the bracket and the B.
Yeah, one keystroke is not the same as one character. I wonder if you
could
tell it to take whatever comes within an instant and treat that like one
character? The ESC the braket and the B must come faster than anyone could
type, so clearly one keystroke, no? Probably not worth the trouble I'll
just
remind myself to hit the space for 'no'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-21 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-21 16:41 Ray Andrews
2021-02-21 17:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-21 17:54 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2021-02-21 21:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-21 21:58 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-21 23:03 ` Bart Schaefer
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