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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 23:06:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160622210655.GK4109@var.coova.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-RhyH4MCEVc=2xs8iDurVGJsgaT_D=vRhLviFLcTBwrg@mail.gmail.com>

Peter Maydell, on Wed 22 Jun 2016 21:49:04 +0100, wrote:
> On 22 June 2016 at 16:44, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> 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,

I guess it's a "feature" due to old sluggish terminals.

Samuel

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-22 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-22 15:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s Samuel Thibault
2016-06-22 20:49 ` Peter Maydell
2016-06-22 21:06   ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2016-06-22 21:11     ` Peter Maydell
2016-10-15 17:24   ` Samuel Thibault
2016-10-26 12:51     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-10-26 15:20       ` Samuel Thibault
2016-10-30 11:38 Samuel Thibault
2019-03-03  6:14 Samuel Thibault
2019-03-03 17:11 ` Warner Losh
2019-03-03 17:26   ` Samuel Thibault

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