How can I use keypress and prompt libraries same time?

Question

I want to catch all key presses, but also, use prompt library.

var Prompt = require("prompt")
  , Keypress = require("keypress")
  ;

Prompt.start();
var schema = {
    properties: {
        name: {
            required: true
          , description: "What's your name?"
        }
    }
};

Prompt.get(schema, function (err, result) {
    console.log(err || result);
});

process.stdin.on("keypress", function (ch, key) {
    console.log(key);
    if (key && key.name === "c" && key.ctrl) {
        process.exit();
    }
});

The issue is that after prompt callback is called, keypress events are not triggered anymore.

Is there a solution/work around for this?

Answer 1

I found the following workaround:

// Override get method
var oldGet = Prompt.get;
Prompt.get = function (schema, callback) {
    oldGet.call(this, schema, function () {
        process.stdin.setRawMode(true);
        process.stdin.resume();
        callback.apply(this, arguments);
    });
};

I used this in the cli-github project.