From: Nebiru <Nebiru@...>
Date: 2006-10-01T03:50:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get a character from keyboard?


Luo Yong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I found that the STDIN.getc seem using a buffered input.It can't
> return anything until you enter a "\n".
>
> Is there any way to get a character directly from keyboard?
>
> Thanks.

Not sure if this is quite what your looking for but I generally do
something like
def get_keypress
    system "stty raw -echo"
    STDIN.getc
ensure
    system "stty -raw echo"
end

key = get_keypress.chr