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826 :: Equivalent to readkey() in Nim?

• Dagger (orginal) [2015-02-03T15:52:37+01:00] view original

  I am trying to grab keypresses from the console using Nim and am having no luck finding a way to do so. For my purposes it only needs to work for Linux. In other languages I have used things like readkey and console.readkey(), but have been unable to locate anything remotely similar for Nim in the guide, tutorials or forums. Any help is greatly appreciated :)

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• LeuGim (orginal) [2015-02-03T16:24:45+01:00] view original

  Maybe this can help: http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/758.

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• def (orginal) [2015-02-03T17:10:10+01:00] view original

  It's a bit complicated since there was no wrapper for termios. I think this should go into the standard library as it's something people want to do a lot: https://gist.github.com/def-/58c3374c23f120e31872

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• Dagger (orginal) [2015-02-03T17:24:24+01:00] view original

  @def That is exactly what I have been looking for, thank you!

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• def (orginal) [2015-02-03T17:32:26+01:00] view original

  You're welcome. If the pull request is accepted all you have to do is this:

  import terminal
  let x = getch()
  echo x
  Run

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