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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon chuckwagoncomputing

Handle special keys

Open Manishearth opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

Whilst sshing, the following keys are rather useful:

  • Ctrl, Alt
  • PgUp/PgDn (very useful for irssi), Home, End
  • ESC (for vim)
  • Arrow keys
  • ins, del

What might be easiest is to provide Ctrl, Alt, keys at the topbar, with another key (or perhaps long-press?) which brings up a draggable keypad with nine keys -- arrow, pgup/pgdn/home/end, and ESC at the center. This is similar to what the SSH client on Windows Phone does and is quite usable.

Manishearth avatar Jan 23 '16 12:01 Manishearth

Personally, I think this should be implemented as a keyboard rather than a part of the app. @codingfree showed some interest in doing this. I would like to hear your opinions and the pros/cons of both ways.

chuckwagoncomputing avatar Jan 23 '16 18:01 chuckwagoncomputing

All other SSH apps I know do this inline. Besides, a keyboard which you only use for one app sounds ... unweildy.

Manishearth avatar Jan 23 '16 19:01 Manishearth

Good point. I don't have time for this right now. If someone else wants to do it, go ahead.

chuckwagoncomputing avatar Feb 12 '16 03:02 chuckwagoncomputing