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On 2023-02-23 16:33, Daniel Gaudry wrote:
> On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 3:26:09 PM UTC+1, AdaMagica wrote:
>> Niklas Holsti schrieb am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2023 um 18:36:06 UTC+1:


    [skip answers]


> Hi,
>   Many thanks for your time and answers
> My problem under ubuntu is that get_immediate pauses the program if no key is hit.
> Therefore available is not set and this little routine cannot perform as I want.
> Any idea on how i can write such a simple routine that works ??


Did you try it /without/ the Look_Ahead, as I suggested?

If you did, please post your new code and explain:

- how you want it to work, and

- how it behaves when you try it, and

- why that is not what you want.