Re: Converting Type Characters to type string

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> On 31 Mar, 17:41, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> 
>> I almost never use single-character input.  The only time I would want
>> to is if, for some reason, you need the program to react immediately
>> to some key that's typed in (other than Return or Enter).  E.g. I've
>> written programs that will do something interesting if the user
>> presses the up-arrow or down-arrow keys on the keyboard.
> 
> ... The program
> has no way to react to individual keystrokes.
> 
> Unless you talked to the terminal directly - but then it was not
> Ada.Text_IO.

I'd speculate that Ada.Text_IO.Get_Immediate, reading both
control and graphic characters, might have been helpful to
some extent. ;-)