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  • Introduction & ANSI Escape Codes
  • Terminal Raw Mode & Terminal Attributes
  • Building The Text Viewer Skeleton
  • Getting Terminal Rows & Columns With The IOCTL API
  • Bugfixing Flickering & Cursor Positioning
  • The Problem with Arrow Up & Down and Key Mappings
  • How to Move your Cursor
  • How to Load and Display Text Files
  • Some Refactoring and Scrolling
  • Page Up and Page Down
  • Horizontal Scrolling
  • End Key
  • Cursor Snapping
  • Cursor Line Wrapping
  • MacOS and Windows Support
  • Summary
  • Marco Codes - Building a Text Editor
  • The Problem with Arrow Up & Down and Key Mappings

The Problem with Arrow Up & Down and Key Mappings

Arrow motion & How to map 3 or 4 keys to 1.

Helen Scott

Helen Scott

2022-11-13
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Arrow Key Handling

  • What actually happens when you press Arrow Up/Down/Left/Right
  • How to handle complex keypress sequences in the application
  • How to map three or four key presses to one

Bugfixing Flickering & Cursor Positioning
How to Move your Cursor
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