--- title: Handling keyboard events | daily.dev description: Users unfamiliar with BEAM have questions about handling keyboard events in Erlang programs. Existing NIF packages have latency issues and are not suitable for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/handling-keyboard-events-zkuhqthz2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Handling keyboard events | daily.dev og:description: Users unfamiliar with BEAM have questions about handling keyboard events in Erlang programs. Existing NIF packages have latency issues and are not suitable for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/handling-keyboard-events-zkuhqthz2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZkuhQThz2.png og:image:alt: Handling keyboard events og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Handling keyboard events **[Erlang Forums](https://daily.dev/sources/erlangforums)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Users unfamiliar with BEAM have questions about handling keyboard events in Erlang programs. Existing NIF packages have latency issues and are not suitable for CLI programs. The prim_tty module has the capability to identify keyboard events but does not expose this functionality. The community could benefit from the ability to detect keyboard events. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#erlang](https://daily.dev/tags/erlang) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/handling-keyboard-events-zkuhqthz2) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Handling keyboard events","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/handling-keyboard-events-zkuhqthz2","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/handling-keyboard-events-zkuhqthz2"},"datePublished":"2024-05-05T10:24:27.683Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z","description":"Users unfamiliar with BEAM have questions about handling keyboard events in Erlang programs. Existing NIF packages have latency issues and are not suitable for...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/30a15dbf39929078ecd91ef0f412a153?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/30a15dbf39929078ecd91ef0f412a153?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Erlang Forums","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Erlang Forums","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/b352c25bf0ad4af3b186d4cdf1c4f17c","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/erlangforums"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/handling-keyboard-events-zkuhqthz2","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cli,erlang","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Erlang Forums","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/erlangforums"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Handling keyboard events"}]} ```