How to handle ctrl + Arrow keys input using termbox-go? about termbox-go

[nsf]

Termbox doesn't support them. Any unknown esc key sequence (ctrl+arrow keys are esc seqs) is recognized as esc and characters which follow. The reason for this is that termbox supports only a common subset of functionality all most popular terminals support.

There is no way to avoid that behaviour, unless you simply ignore esc. I've said that many times and I'm happy to repeat: terminals suck when it comes to input, you have to live with it or use something else than a terminal. That's why editors like vim and emacs have a very restricted set of bindings by default. Both vim and emacs don't even use arrow keys mainly and recommend to use other keys (C-f C-b C-n C-p or hjkl). Yes, they do support it eventually, but as I said, not all terminals handle ctrl+arrow keys properly.

I'm strongly against building interfaces which aren't portable (i.e. don't work on all platforms). Yes, termbox became already that kind of a library, where on linux there are 256 colors and on windows there is no such thing. Initially termbox was born because I tried doing portable stuff (linux and windows) using some w32 curses port and it simply didn't work well.

So, whatever, I don't know what to do about it.

[nsf]

I'm adding raw events to the termbox. See: #65

And the commit: 54b74d0

Technically, it's a way to handle Ctrl+Arrow keys. Maybe not the best one, but it is.

[gdamore]

Control+Arrow can't work on most terminals -- there is no escape sequence defined for it, and so its generally impossible outside of Windows.

[Limero]

Control+arrow works on all terminal emulators I've tried (on Linux) and it's supported in programs like vim. Can these keys be added to termbox-go so it's easy to work with?

[nsf]

Termbox is no longer maintained, you can try this lib: https://github.com/gdamore/tcell

It might support what you're looking for.