[gambit-list] How use (read-char) to read individual characters from the console?

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Jan 2 12:21:28 EST 2013


Mikael, you need to change the tty mode :

> (tty-mode-set! (repl-input-port) #t #f #t #f 0)

The booleans indicate various settings (ctrl-c handling, input echo, raw input, raw output).

On UNIX, this changes the terminal's line discipline.  On Windows, it changes the console mode.

Marc


On 2013-01-02, at 11:59 AM, Mikael <mikael.rcv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In using read-char I get results only on a per input line basis. I was trying to switch the input console to byte/character mode instead of line buffered, though I didn't get any result with this.
> 
> Any thought or suggestion?
> 
> Mikael
> 
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