You want to use:
> main = do hSetBuffering stdin NoBuffering; c <- getChar
Your problem is that by default, POSIX environments use line buffering on stdin queuing up until it sees a carriage return before sending it to the process. Which is in this case, your code.
-Edward Kmett
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin@btinternet.com> wrote:
I ran the following program:
>module Main where
>
>main = do
> putStrLn "Key"
> c <- getChar
> print c
> main
Unfortunately, it doesn't do what I was hoping. Specifically, it only returns any data when I hit [return]. It also seems to be giving me a command history somehow. Special keys (e.g., arrow keys, backspace, escape) don't get through to the application.
I'm trying to write a program that uses individual keys as commands. What's the correct way to get this to work?
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