How to catch the keypress

Hi, first of all, compliments for the module.

I’m using term.on( ‘key’) to get the user keyboard input, but when I press something like ARROW_UP it produces on screen this: ^[[A and until I press enter the on(‘key’) callback is not fired… so, since I need to simulate the cursor moving when the user press arrow keys how can I do?

term.grabInput( );
term.on( 'key' , function( key , matches , data ) { 
switch ( key )
    {
        case 'UP' : term.up( 1 ) ; break ;
        case 'DOWN' : term.down( 1 ) ; break ;
        case 'LEFT' : term.left( 1 ) ; break ;
        case 'RIGHT' : term.right( 1 ) ; break ;
        case 'CTRL_C' : process.exit() ; break ;
        default:   
            // Echo anything else
            term.noFormat(
                Buffer.isBuffer( data.code ) ?
                    data.code :
                    String.fromCharCode( data.code )
            ) ;
            break ;
    }
});

The example code is from here: http://blog.soulserv.net and (for me) is not working as described… the arrow keys produces (on screen): ^[[A, … and until I press enter the key event is not fired

[cronvel]

Can you tell me which OS and terminal you are using? It looks like it does not support the raw mode. Windows?

[codekraft-studio]

@cronvel

If you can, then your windows terminal simply has bad default modes, but vanilla Node.js cannot set any TTY mode (beside raw mode), you need a native module for that: the solution can be to use the excellent termios module by @Gottox:

with the terminal provided by Bitvise I can use editors like nano and vim via ssh, eventually I will try to use termios if I really need, but for now i’m just “playing” with the code so I don’t want to complicate my life too much.

Have a look at this constructor, it allows you to configure your stdio.

I didn’t see the documentation in deep, sorry I should have checked before! Later today when I’ve time I’ll try to see if it works like you suggested many thanks!