Is it possible to detect the key pressed in Lua?

Question

Working in terminal mode, I have control over the screen coordinates where the text will be displayed, however I need detect if a key has been pressed, without the same echo onscreen.

Is there a function or library that allows me to detect this?

Answer 1

Directly, in a ready way, as far as I know, no. It is possible to do this in C and expose to Lua access. In fact there are some libraries that have already done this. Example Ntlua.

I found this another example but I don’t know if it works the way you want it to.

Here there’s another attempt.