Re: ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 05:41:41PM +0200, Sven Schuster wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question concerning ncursing:
> I used some other curses libraries in some programs, and no I've compiled my
> programs in Linux but it seems like I have a problem with the ncurses
> library: when I hit the keys on my keyboard repeatedly and fast, my program 
> just
> gets the escape from the entire sequance and leaves because the escape-key is
> used to leave the current dialog or menu.

generally - if you are not worried about delays due to network or computer
loading, you should be able to reduce ESCDELAY to no more than 100, which
would make ESC usable by a fast typist.
 
> I hope you can help me, because I've already tried to set some environment
> variables like "ESCDELAY"  without any effect, and I don't know how to go
> further on with this problems. Did I make any mistakes, can the problem be 
> solved
> with a environment variable, or do I have to change my sources in order to
> work correctly with ncurses? 
> I don't really know what version of the library I use, it's one packaged
> with SuSE Linux 7.3, but it seems to be something like 5.2, date 2001-02-10
> (I've got this values from the curses.h header file)
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> Sven Schuster
> 
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