notcurses-input(1)

💖 notcurses-input — bestie's guide to reading and displaying input events 💖

okay so this is the notcurses-input(1) manual page, freshly translated into group-chat, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

notcurses-input — read and display input events 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

notcurses-input [-v] [-m]

literally that's it, two flags, we move.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so notcurses-input reads from stdin and decodes the input to stdout, and it shows you synthesized events and mouse events too 💅. when you're done, you generate EOF to exit — usually that's Ctrl+d, bestie, that's the escape hatch.

every single event gets printed on one line. and leading that line is a little stack of modifier indicators, like a vibe check for your keypress 👑:

• 'A'/'a' — Alt was, or was not, pressed.
• 'C'/'c' — Ctrl was, or was not, pressed.
• 'S'/'s' — Shift was, or was not, pressed.
• 'U'/'u' — Super was, or was not, pressed.
• 'M'/'m' — Meta was, or was not, pressed.
• 'H'/'h' — Hyper was, or was not, pressed.
• 'X'/'x' — CapsLock was, or was not, pressed.
• '#'/'.' — NumLock was, or was not, pressed.
• 'L'/'R'/'P'/'u' — the key was a release, repeat, press, or of unknown type. it's giving ✨full lifecycle✨.

by default, mice events are enabled 🐭🫶.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v — increase verbosity. give me MORE, I want the tea ☕
• -m — inhibit mice events. no mice, no squeaks 🙈

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🌈 NOTES 🌈

mouse events are only generated for button presses and releases, and for movement while a button is held down. that's it, that's the whole list — no free-floating cursor gossip, iykyk. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

tack(1), notcurses(3), notcurses_input(3)

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

nick black nickblack@linux.com 😭 icon behavior, honestly.

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and that's the whole page bestie, v3.0.17 era, notcurses-input(1), periodt 🎀💖✨