On 22 June 2016 at 16:44, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> wrote: > By default, curses will only report single ESC key event after 1s delay, > since ESC is also used for keypad escape sequences. This however makes users > believe that ESC is not working. Reducing to 0.2s provides good enough user > experience, while still allowing 200ms for keypad sequences to get in, which > should be more than enough.
That the default delay is this massive seems like a bug in curses, but I don't suppose it's likely to be changed at this point :-( -- PMM