How to read input per keypress

Authoring Inform 7
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I haven’t tried using it with an IDE, and I wouldn’t know how to try, sorry.

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One issue this causes in Parchment or other mobile interpreters, is that every time you try to click on the command line, the keyboard opens very briefly then closes, as a result of this timer. I’m guessing there’s no way to change that from within Inform, though?

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Oh dear. I had not realised that happened. And I thought I’d fixed all the mobile input problems…

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Actually I wonder if any interpreter would remember where in the input the cursor is when you resume like this. This approach might break being able to press left and insert characters in the middle.

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I imagine you could write special-case interpreter code to guess where the cursor was in cases like this. (Restarting line input with no intervening output.)

However, no interpreter has this code as far as I know.

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