NEWS

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keypress 1.3.2.9000

• keypress() gained a timeout argument to wait at most a given number of seconds for a key press, returning NA if none arrives in time (#5).
• keypress() is now interruptible on Unix, macOS and Windows, so you can use Ctrl-C to break out of a blocking key press (#4).
• keypress() now supports non-ASCII characters on Windows, including characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, e.g. emoji. (#6).

keypress 1.3.2 (2026-05-28)

• No changes.

keypress 1.3.1 (2023-12-11)

• Fix a *printf() format string on Windows.

keypress 1.3.0 (2022-10-26)

• Allow turning echo off for non-blocking Linux and macOS terminals (#11, @weshinsley)
• Support non-blocking press on Windows (Rterm)
• keypress() now returns NA if no key was pressed in non-blocking mode, as it is documented.

keypress 1.2.0 (2020-01-10)

• Support RStudio terminal.
• Better detection of support in Emacs.

keypress 1.1.1 (2017-03-02)

• Use native routine registration to avoid R CMD check warnings.
• Make sure compilation units are not empty, to avoid another R CMD check warning.

keypress 1.1.0

• Non-blocking reads.
• Better reading individual keys from a copy-paste, or the OS buffer in general.

keypress 1.0.0 (2015-06-06)

First released version.