Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>]

Warner Losh, le dim. 03 mars 2019 10:11:52 -0700, a ecrit:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 12:45 AM Samuel Thibault <[1]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.
> 
> How did you come up with this number?

Since the default was very long, I chose a value that felt fast enough
for the user.

> Still seems a bit long for the ESC ESC case where the user hits ESC
> twice in quick succession.

Right, there might be such double-press.

> Even back in the day, terminals would send the characters back to back
> at 1200 baud, which is 8ms per character. 32ms is 4x that, 32x 9600
> baud rates. 25 or 50ms is suggested from these figures.

Alright, let's try 25 then.

Samuel