Emacs Key-up Event or Polling State Status?

Question

Is there a way in emacs to check for an event with a key, or, alternatively, can you poll the keyboard and see if the key is pressed at the moment?

Answer 1

The Emacs elisp API does not allow you to get information about how long a key has been pressed, and if it is still pressed.

Emacs work not only in GUI mode, but also in terminals where this information is not available (because the hardware does not support it).

So GNU Emacs is written in such a way that it cannot pull out such information.

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