[lug] counting keystrokes

[Atkinson, Chip]

This is only an approximation depending on one's vi-ness.  If you use vi
mode and the hjkl exclusively you can do this, but when you start hitting
the arrow keys you get 4 key interrupts.  You can do something like 
while :; do
cat /proc/interrupts
sleep 1
done

in one window and press various keys in another one.  You'll see that not
every key increments the number by two.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Reifschneider [mailto:jafo at tummy.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 12:12 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] counting keystrokes
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Ken Weinert wrote:
> >Or, perhaps, there is already a keyboard driver that does 
> this sort of
> >thing. Surely you aren't the first to want to count keystrokes.
> 
> There's a keyboard interrupt.  Divide the number in 
> /proc/interrupts by 2.
> 
> Sean
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