---
title: "Handling keyboard events"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/handling-keyboard-events-zkuhqthz2
source_url: https://erlangforums.com/t/handling-keyboard-events/3591
type: article
source: "Erlang Forums"
published: 2024-05-05T10:24:27.683Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z
tags: ["cli", "erlang"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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.

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