On 22 June 2016 at 22:06, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > Peter Maydell, on Wed 22 Jun 2016 21:49:04 +0100, wrote: >> 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, > > I guess it's a "feature" due to old sluggish terminals.
Even the old mechanical terminals like the ASR33 could do at least five or six characters a second :-) thanks -- PMM
