How to simulate Window's "Press any key to continue..."

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On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 04:45:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 04:22:07 UTC, 
> FireController#1847 wrote:
>
>> Right, but readln will only wait until the user presses the 
>> delimiter (by default Enter/Return). I want it to wait until 
>> ANY key is pressed, not a specific key
>
> The documentation for std.stdio.File shows two functions for 
> reading input: readln and readf. If readln isn't what you want, 
> then readf probably is:
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html#.File.readf
>
> Also, there's a freely available book online to help get you up 
> to speed: Programming in D. Here's the section on reading from 
> stdin with readf:
>
> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/input.html

stdin is buffered and will not be forwarded to the D-library 
until you press enter. The solution is different on Linux and 
Windows. On Linux you need to disable the "CANON" mode in the 
terminal.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449324/how-to-simulate-press-any-key-to-continue

There are a few suggestions for Windows in the link as well. 
Annoyingly complicated for such a simple thing but that's how it 
is.