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

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Sun Oct 11 10:30:43 EDT 2009


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...)



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