Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Nightfox to Digital man on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:16 pm
> Hi DM,
>
> I seem to remember reading somewhere (or discussing it on IRC?) that when a
> user presses Q at a prompt, Synchronet interprets Q in a certain way - is
> that correct?
>
> A user brought up an issue while using DDMsgReader, which I'm able to
> reproduce - After responding to a personal email and saving it, Synchronet
> says "E-mail sent to <user>.", then pauses for a key, showing "[Hit a key]",
> and if they press Q at that point, I'm returned to DDMsgReader showing the
> original message (as expected), but the header at the top of the screen
> doesn't get re-drawn. I'm going to investigate further, but I was just
> curious if Synchronet interprets a "Q" keypress a certain way (when pressed
> at a pause prompt or any other prompt)?
Yes, hitting 'Q' (or the equivalent for the current language) or Ctrl-C while
at a pause prompt will set the console abort flag (e.g. console.aborted in JS).
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