On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 03:31:01AM -0500, David Young wrote:
> I want to control UNIX terminal programs with key-up/-down events, no
> matter whether they run on the console, in an xterm, or in an ssh session.
> 
> It appears there is no existing terminal line discipline where a
> (pseudo-)terminal passes key-up/-down events to a process.  I will need
> to add a new termios(4) input processing flag---IKEYUP, say---to activate
> the events.  Finally, I will need to set the key-up/-down events apart
> from "normal" input using, say, an escape sequence such as "\377\1".
> Make sense?
> 
> I was surprised that I could found no prior art with Google.  Let me know
> if someone has added key-up/-down events to a UNIX terminal driver before.

What does Windows NT do? Their console applications can use key-up/-down
events. What is interesting is that it works through Telnet too, using the
VTNT terminal type.

Pavel