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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s |
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Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:20:28 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) |
Gerd Hoffmann, on Wed 26 Oct 2016 14:51:00 +0200, wrote:
> On Sa, 2016-10-15 at 19:24 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Peter Maydell, on Wed 22 Jun 2016 21:49:04 +0100, wrote:
> > > On 22 June 2016 at 16:44, Samuel Thibault <address@hidden> 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 :-(
> >
> > So, could this be applied? Otherwise e.g. DOS applications ESC actions
> > are very slugguish and thus look bogus in the ncurses UI.
>
> Somehow slipped through and not in my qemu-devel folder any more.
> Can you resend?
I have bounced it, (its "Date:" is 22 Jun 2016).
Samuel