Read user input
gwenn opened this issue · 6 comments
Would it be possible to use vte
to read user input (keyboard / mouse) in raw mode ?
I am doing experiments here.
And it appears that some key sequences are not reported like:
- Shift-Tab
- Alt-Enter
- Alt-Backspace
Thanks.
It's for generally parsing escapes you get from the application and implement virtual terminal emulator, not for the application side itself, since it's different. It could be improved to handle both sides of the equation, but there're already creates doing so, like crossterm.
This is pretty much out-of-scope for this library, however nothing stops from building derivative for client part of terminal apps.
I don't want to have a decoding of kitty/terminfo/all other stuff here.
Like input is more complicated than you might think of it.
It's for generally parsing escapes you get from the application and implement virtual terminal emulator, not for the application side itself, since it's different. It could be improved to handle both sides of the equation, but there're already creates doing so, like crossterm.
This is not entirely true. Most existing libraries like crossterm are pretty bad and VTE is perfectly capable of handling the client side of things too: https://github.com/chrisduerr/sketch/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L8
@chrisduerr So should I reopen this issue ?
No, it's already possible. If you want something like ansi
but for client, that part is out of scope.