https://phosphorbbs.net/tags/input-handling/ Recent content in Input Handling on Phosphor BBS Hugo en-us Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/the-case-of-the-very-random-dead-ctrl-t/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/the-case-of-the-very-random-dead-ctrl-t/ <p>Two weeks into the popup chat feature, users started reporting the same thing in different words: <em>Ctrl-T is very random.</em> Sometimes it opened the chat popup instantly. Sometimes it did nothing — not even an error. Same terminal, same screen, same key. First press of the session would work, three presses in a row would work, then a press after closing the popup with ESC would go dead. Then it would work again. There was no pattern, which was the most maddening part — a consistently broken key is a bug report; an inconsistently broken key is a haunting.</p>