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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Events on Linux? by zamalek on Sunday January 27, 2019 @02:26PM (#19013306)
> No, no one can fix this.

The nice thing about escape sequences is that they are ignored if not understood.

> Microsoft can't fix this either (in Windows

Because it's not an issue in Windows? The Windows console, as primitive as it is, supports monitoring the status of the keyboard (which can be used to infer key up events).

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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Events on Linux? by cryptonector on Sunday January 27, 2019 @03:03PM (#19013500)
MSFT is adding a pty driver and support for Unix-style applications.
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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Events on Linux? by bboreham on Monday January 28, 2019 @02:03PM (#19020112)
> The nice thing about escape sequences is that they are ignored if not understood.

This is not what I find when I press my arrow keys in a container terminal set up with no TERM variable. I get funky characters spewed across the input line.

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