Use set_mode! to change to raw (not-line-buffered) mode first and call start reading. You may need to invoke process_events too
Or perhaps structure your algorithm to handle ^C and recover gracefully Or run the code in a separate worker and send progress updates to the controller On Friday, April 4, 2014, John Myles White <johnmyleswh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to find a way to see if a user has typed anything into the REPL > while a long-running computation takes place so that users can hit a > special key to pause their computation and inspect its intermediate state. > > To get started, I wrote this snippet and tried to see if it would count > input that I typed into the REPL: > > for i in 1:5 > sleep(1) > println() > println(nb_available(STDIN)) > end > > It doesn't seem like STDIN receives the keystrokes I type while this loop > is executing. > > How would one get access to those keystrokes in the current REPL? Should I > be using some kind of interrupt handling instead? > > -- John > >
