Peter Hodge wrote:

> I am having trouble with getchar() detecting <ESC>.  If I use getchar(0) or
> getchar(1), it will not pick up an <ESC> keystroke.  You can replicate this by
> using the command:
> 
>   :sleep 3 | echo getchar(0)
> 
> ... and pressing <ESC> quickly before the getchar() function is
> called.  In GUI Vim, I correctly see 27 returned by getchar(0), but in
> Terminal Vim, getchar(0) is returning '0', even though <ESC> has been
> pressed.  Is this a bug in Vim?

It's because <Esc> is the start of a key sequence and it's incomplete.
Vim can't know you pressed the <Esc> key instead of having received the
first byte of a key sequence.

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