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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s |
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Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:51:00 +0200 |
On Sa, 2016-10-15 at 19:24 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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?
thanks,
Gerd