Typically, input on the command-line is line-based. It is actually not
really easy to get single characters (or better put: keystrokes).
We provide two implementations here:
- One that handles `/dev/tty` based systems as well as native Windows.
The former uses the `tcsetattr()` function to put the terminal into
"raw mode", which allows us to read individual keystrokes, one by one.
The latter uses `stty.exe` to do the same, falling back to direct
Win32 Console access.
Thanks to the refactoring leading up to this commit, this is a single
function, with the platform-specific details hidden away in
conditionally-compiled code blocks.
- A fall-back which simply punts and reads back an entire line.
Note that the function writes the keystroke into an `strbuf` rather than
a `char`, in preparation for reading Escape sequences (e.g. when the
user hit an arrow key). This is also required for UTF-8 sequences in
case the keystroke corresponds to a non-ASCII letter.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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