From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFkkN-0002rx-AF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:11:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFkkI-0007wb-4J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:11:22 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:50616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFkkH-0007wU-T4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:11:18 -0400 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:44:38 +0200 Message-Id: <1466610278-22670-1-git-send-email-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reduce curses escdelay from 1s to 0.2s List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kraxel@redhat.com Cc: Samuel Thibault 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. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault --- ui/curses.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ui/curses.c b/ui/curses.c index b475589..49d3ce6 100644 --- a/ui/curses.c +++ b/ui/curses.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static void curses_refresh(DisplayChangeListener *dcl) keycode = curses2keycode[chr]; keycode_alt = 0; - /* alt key */ + /* alt or esc key */ if (keycode == 1) { nextchr = getch(); @@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ static void curses_setup(void) initscr(); noecho(); intrflush(stdscr, FALSE); nodelay(stdscr, TRUE); nonl(); keypad(stdscr, TRUE); start_color(); raw(); scrollok(stdscr, FALSE); + set_escdelay(200); /* Make color pair to match color format (3bits bg:3bits fg) */ for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) { -- 2.8.1