read single characters from stdin

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On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:06:03 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe  
<destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 17:51:03 UTC, Thomas Koch wrote:
>> How can I read single characters?
>
> The way I'd do it is with the C call fgetc(stdin). You can do it in D  
> the same way if you import core.stdc.stdio;
>
> But, if you are on Linux, it isn't going to be that simple. The Linux  
> terminal/operating system will buffer input, not sending any data to you  
> until the user presses enter.
>
> You'll probably want to use a library like ncurses on linux... you can  
> do without too, turning on raw mode to the terminal I think, but I don't  
> remember how to do it right now. Are you on Linux or Windows?
>
> (I'm pretty sure it just works on windows but it's been a while since  
> I've done an app like this.)


ncurses will do it with getch().
pdpurses should have the same function.

You will most likely still have to ncurses setup and teardown though.  
shrug.