From: "Henry T. So Jr." <henryso@...>
Date: 2001-04-15T13:02:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13675] Re: gathering user input

In [ruby-talk:13674], "Will Conant" <will_conant@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way for me to get a character from the terminal right as it
> is typed, rather than blocking until the user presses enter? Also,
> ruby automatically prints the characters out as the user types
> them... can this  behavior be changed? 

Though I haven't actually used it in the context of Ruby, this is the sort of 
thing curses (and thus the curses Ruby extension) does.

Henry.