terminal-keycode

convert bytes from a terminal into keycodes

These codes were measured experimentally in xterm with a 104 key US windows keyboard. Other terminals may give somewhat different results. For example, the tty login terminal on my linux laptop will only show the base keycode even if you hold down shift or ctrl.

Different terminals and window managers will capture different key combos, so your program won't be able to catch everything.

This library expects unicode input and will lookahead a corresponding number of bytes based on how many high bits are set, populating a KeyCode::Char(char) with a unicode scalar value. If a non-interpreted sequence is not a valid unicode scalar value, you will get a sequence of KeyCode::Byte(u8).

example

use std::io::Read;
use raw_tty::IntoRawMode;
use terminal_keycode::{Decoder,KeyCode};

fn main() {
  let mut stdin = std::io::stdin().into_raw_mode().unwrap();
  let mut buf = vec![0];
  let mut decoder = Decoder::new();
  loop {
    stdin.read_exact(&mut buf).unwrap();
    for keycode in decoder.write(buf[0]) {
      print!["code={:?} bytes={:?} printable={:?}\r\n",
        keycode, keycode.bytes(), keycode.printable()
      ];
      if keycode == KeyCode::CtrlC { return }
    }
  }
}

output with various key presses in xterm:

$ cargo run -q --example keys
code=Char('a') bytes=[97] printable=Some('a')
code=Char('b') bytes=[98] printable=Some('b')
code=Char('c') bytes=[99] printable=Some('c')
code=PageUp bytes=[27, 91, 53, 126] printable=None
code=PageDown bytes=[27, 91, 54, 126] printable=None
code=Char('é') bytes=[195, 169] printable=Some('é')
code=Char('☃') bytes=[226, 152, 131] printable=Some('☃')
code=Tab bytes=[9] printable=Some('\t')
code=Space bytes=[32] printable=Some(' ')
code=Backspace bytes=[127] printable=None
code=ArrowUp bytes=[27, 91, 65] printable=None
code=F9 bytes=[27, 91, 50, 48, 126] printable=None
code=F3 bytes=[27, 79, 82] printable=None
code=CtrlF1 bytes=[27, 91, 49, 59, 53, 80] printable=None
code=CtrlShiftF2 bytes=[27, 91, 49, 59, 54, 81] printable=None
code=ShiftF3 bytes=[27, 91, 49, 59, 50, 82] printable=None
code=CtrlArrowUp bytes=[27, 91, 49, 59, 53, 65] printable=None
code=CtrlShiftArrowLeft bytes=[27, 91, 49, 59, 54, 68] printable=None
code=CtrlA bytes=[1] printable=None
code=CtrlB bytes=[2] printable=None
code=CtrlC bytes=[3] printable=None

If all you need are the byte sequences for different keycodes, you can do:

use terminal_keycode::KeyCode;

fn main() {
  println!["{:?}", KeyCode::ArrowLeft.bytes()]; // [27, 91, 68]
  println!["{:?}", KeyCode::CtrlShiftF1.bytes()]; // [27, 91, 49, 59, 54, 80]
  println!["{:?}", KeyCode::Char('F').bytes()]; // [70]
  println!["{:?}", KeyCode::Home.bytes()]; // [27, 91, 72]
}