poezio/src/keyboard.py
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# Copyright 2010-2011 Florent Le Coz <louiz@louiz.org>
#
# This file is part of Poezio.
#
# Poezio is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the zlib license. See the COPYING file.
"""
Functions to interact with the keyboard
Mainly, read keys entered and return a string (most
of the time ONE char, but may be longer if it's a keyboard
shortcut, like ^A, M-a or KEY_RESIZE)
"""
import time
def get_next_byte(s):
"""
Read the next byte of the utf-8 char
ncurses seems to return a string of the byte
encoded in latin-1. So what we get is NOT what we typed
unless we do the conversion…
"""
try:
c = s.getkey()
except:
return (None, None)
if len(c) >= 4:
return (None, c)
return (ord(c), c.encode('latin-1')) # returns a number and a bytes object
def read_char(s, timeout=1000):
"""
Read one utf-8 char
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
"""
s.timeout(timeout) # The timeout for timed events to be checked every second
ret_list = []
# The list of all chars. For example if you paste a text, the list the chars pasted
# so that they can be handled at once.
(first, char) = get_next_byte(s)
while first is not None or char is not None:
if not isinstance(first, int): # Keyboard special, like KEY_HOME etc
return [char]
if first == 127 or first == 8:
return ["KEY_BACKSPACE"]
s.timeout(0) # we are now getting the missing utf-8 bytes to get a whole char
if first < 127: # ASCII char on one byte
if first <= 26: # transform Ctrl+* keys
char = chr(first + 64)
ret_list.append("^"+char)
(first, char) = get_next_byte(s)
continue
if first == 27:
second = read_char(s, 0)
if second is None: # if escape was pressed, a second char
# has to be read. But it timed out.
return None
res = 'M-%s' % (second[0],)
ret_list.append(res)
(first, char) = get_next_byte(s)
continue
if 194 <= first:
(code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 2 bytes char
char += c
if 224 <= first:
(code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 3 bytes char
char += c
if 240 <= first:
(code, c) = get_next_byte(s) # 4 bytes char
char += c
try:
ret_list.append(char.decode('utf-8')) # return all the concatened byte objets, decoded
except UnicodeDecodeError:
return None
# s.timeout(1) # timeout to detect a paste of many chars
(first, char) = get_next_byte(s)
if not ret_list:
# nothing at all was read, thats a timed event timeout
return None
if len(ret_list) != 1:
if ret_list[-1] == '^M':
ret_list.pop(-1)
return [char if char != '^M' else '^J' for char in ret_list]
return ret_list
if __name__ == '__main__':
import curses
s = curses.initscr()
curses.curs_set(1)
curses.noecho()
curses.nonl()
s.keypad(True)
curses.noecho()
while True:
s.addstr('%s\n' % read_char(s))