Keydown event doesn't fire on iOS when arrow keys pressed on external keyboard

Is it possible this was done for a reason? Users on the linked page report that it's not just keydown but also keypress and keyup. If the first two were disabled but keyup still worked that decision may have some (limited) justification because keyup is the only one that necessarily fires once per physical input by the user.

I don't want to give Apple more credit than they deserve but it is equally foolish to assume that everything that is not how I expect it to be is a mistake. Then again, maybe they just don't want people using iOS when they "should" be using OSX, which is the kind of judgemental decision-making for which Apple is known. From the linked bug report:

> Would be a huge benefit to the iPad community if arrow key events fired. That explains the lack of support by sites like Cloud9, plnkr, etc... I do a lot of web development in those IDEs to teach people and to brainstorm when I'm not at my computer so it would be awesome if the team got this in and it made its way to IOS.

Finally! I knew that the whole modal editing thing and the `hjkl` commands would become useful some day!

Definitely remember some issue where I wasn't getting events for one of the arrow keys (can't recall which off-hand) in my iOS app. Also, there's no public UIKit API for getting key up events.

Maybe this is related: I tried using Codeanywhere on iOS with a first gen Magic Keyboard. Most modifier keys and arrows weren't working properly, which made Vim, tmux and readline a PITA.

Anyone else have problems also with Ssh terminals or iVim on iOS?

It's not a bug, is a feature...

Well, Steve Jobs did try to discourage us from using the arrow keys back in 1984...

I hate iOS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/click#Sa...

I know there's some kind of joke around here about how the real error is using the iPad like a computer...