Arrows are not working in cmd?

[ouahibAbdou]

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[ResourceHog]

This is happening for me as well. (in my case powershell)

[SBoudrias]

@ResourceHog @ouahibAbdou how are you running your app?

node index.js or something else? If it's something else you need to make sure the input events are piped in.

[ResourceHog]

That's exactly how aframe-typescript-toolkit runs.

equivalent script in question:
https://github.com/olioapps/aframe-typescript-toolkit/blob/master/cli.js

"npm run cli" is what I use but it's just an alias for "node cli.js"

Package file:
https://github.com/olioapps/aframe-typescript-toolkit/blob/master/package.json

[wztscau]

Nodemon has this problem. Use node instead of nodemon.

[accimeesterlin]

I can confirm that this is not an issue with inquirer itself. It's an issue with nodemon. Run the app using node instead

node index.js

[dhl]

This is definitely a problem I can reproduce with rawlist, even without nodemon involved. list, on the other hand, is fine.

I have two modules:

app.js         # entry module, what gets launched with `node app.js`
menu.js        # creates a menu with `inquirer`. This is where `inquirer` is loaded.

With this setup, arrow key doesn't work on rawlist. However, if I require inquirer in app.js and pass the module into menu.js and using the passed in module, arrow key would work.

[adivated]

it's actually not a bug in either inquirer or nodemon, pass stdin to nodemon with -I flag. See:
remy/nodemon#1445
https://github.com/remy/nodemon/blob/master/doc/cli/options.txt#L16

[gouroujo]

For anyone looking for the nodemon configuration : { stdin : false } in the configuration file or --no-stdin flag

[felipenmoura]

And for those who are NOT using nodemon, what's fix?

It was working normally...I updated to node 20+ and updated the dependencies and now arrows won't navigate.

The way I am using it (and haven't changed a line) is this:

const inquirer = (await import('inquirer')).default;

inquirer
  .prompt([])
  .then(...);

I am just running node ./file-name.js ... the simplest way as possible.
Also, when printing process.stdin.isTTY, it gives me true.

Interestingly enough...if I use list instead of rawlist, it DOES WORK. Have been using this as a workaround, for those who need a fix. So yes, it looks like it is something related to the rawlist feature.

[SBoudrias]

Oh yeah, the rawlist doesn't support arrow navigation (AFAIK never has 🤔)