Re: Re: Slyedit
  By: deon to Digital Man on Fri Jan 22 2021 09:33 am

 >   Re: Re: Slyedit
 >   By: Digital Man to deon on Thu Jan 21 2021 12:06 pm
 >
 >  DM> It'd helpful to know the actual character value being sent when you hit
 >  DM> Ctrl-Space. If you go into the user terminal settings, where it prompt
 >  DM> you to hit backspace/delete, if you hit Ctrl-Space, what character
 >  DM> value does it report?
 >
 > So it appears to be sending NUL 0x00.
 >
 > In the terminal settings pressing Ctrl-Space for the "delete" character,
 > yielded nothing.
 >
 > I got hold of a key scanning tool for the MAC, and it reports this for CTRL
 > Space:
 >
 > Key Down
 >  Characters:
 >  Unicode:0 / 0x0
 >  Keys:^Space
 >  Key Code: 49 / 0x31
 >  Modifiers: 262401 / 0x40101
 >
 > And for comparison, the delete key shows this.
 >
 > Key Down
 >  Characters:
 >  Unicode:127 / 0x7f
 >  Keys:(backspace symbol)
 >  Key Code: 51 / 0x33
 >  Modifiers: 256 / 0x100
 >
 > So maybe ignoring a NUL character would be sufficient?

Currently, in JS, a console.inkey() timeout looks the same as the receipt of a NUL (ASCII 0) from the user.

I just committed a change so that a script can use a new mode flag (K_NUL) to differentiate between the 2 conditions and SlyEdit could make use of that. Or he could just ignore the empty string result of console.inkey().
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