Re: [PATCH/RFC] kconfig/lxdialog: make lxdialof a built-in

[Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>]

On Friday 28 July 2006 16:59, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > The double ESC ESC thing I dunno how to fix.
> > 
> > I think the easiest would be to just ignore the first ESC, it matches the 
> > documented behaviour and e.g. mc has the same behaviour. The delay of the 
> > single ESC makes it a bit annoying/confusing to use, so that sticking to 
> > the double ESC is IMO safer.
> > I played with it a little and below is an example, which implements this 
> > behaviour for the menu window. 
> 
> Thanks - will implment this for all the dialog_* functions.

I don't like "double ESC" idea at all.

I am a Midnight Commander user and I use "old ESC mode"
where single ESC works after a delay.

I patched mc to look at KEYBOARD_KEY_TIMEOUT_US environment variable 
so that delay is configurable (instead of hardcoded 0.5 second one).
Will push the patch to mc-devel.

25 millisecond timeout works just fine on local ttys, serial lines,
and over ssh. So I am setting KEYBOARD_KEY_TIMEOUT_US=25000.
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