terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke

Typically, input on the command-line is line-based. It is actually not
really easy to get single characters (or better put: keystrokes).

We provide two implementations here:

- One that handles `/dev/tty` based systems as well as native Windows.
  The former uses the `tcsetattr()` function to put the terminal into
  "raw mode", which allows us to read individual keystrokes, one by one.
  The latter uses `stty.exe` to do the same, falling back to direct
  Win32 Console access.

  Thanks to the refactoring leading up to this commit, this is a single
  function, with the platform-specific details hidden away in
  conditionally-compiled code blocks.

- A fall-back which simply punts and reads back an entire line.

Note that the function writes the keystroke into an `strbuf` rather than
a `char`, in preparation for reading Escape sequences (e.g. when the
user hit an arrow key). This is also required for UTF-8 sequences in
case the keystroke corresponds to a non-ASCII letter.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/compat/terminal.h b/compat/terminal.h
index 97db7cd69d..a9d52b8464 100644
--- a/compat/terminal.h
+++ b/compat/terminal.h
@@ -3,4 +3,7 @@
 
 char *git_terminal_prompt(const char *prompt, int echo);
 
+/* Read a single keystroke, without echoing it to the terminal */
+int read_key_without_echo(struct strbuf *buf);
+
 #endif /* COMPAT_TERMINAL_H */