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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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Sat, 15 Oct 2016 19:24:39 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) |
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.
Samuel
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s,
Samuel Thibault <=