[Haskell-cafe] a library for control of terminal driver modes?

Max Bolingbroke batterseapower at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 13 17:01:15 EDT 2009


Err, I managed to completely misread your email. Sorry.

Unfortunately, ansi-terminal does NOT support disabling the echo and I
don't plan to support it. However, given that I already provide
non-ANSI features from it, patches would be happily accepted :-)

Cheers,
Max

2009/10/13 Max Bolingbroke <batterseapower at hotmail.com>:
> Yes, ansi-terminal supports this. Try:
>
> setSGR [SetBlinkSpeed NoBlink]
>
> (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/ansi-terminal/0.5.0/doc/html/System-Console-ANSI.html)
>
> Cheers,
> Max
>
> 2009/10/12 Iain Barnett <iainspeed at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 11 Oct 2009, at 15:30, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>
>>> Iain Barnett wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a library like Perl's Term-Readkey, so that I can turn on
>>>> and off the echo for secure password input from a terminal. Anyone know
>>>> which library I need to use for this?
>>>
>>> The package ansi-terminal allows you to do various things to the terminal;
>>> I think it might include turning local echo on/off. Alternatively, there was
>>> an announcement recently about a text-mode UI package, which might do what
>>> you want. (I don't recall the name...)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Iain
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