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

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

Gerd Hoffmann, on Wed 26 Oct 2016 14:51:00 +0200, wrote:
> On Sa, 2016-10-15 at 19:24 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 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,
> > > 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.
> 
> Somehow slipped through and not in my qemu-devel folder any more.
> Can you resend?

I have bounced it, (its "Date:" is 22 Jun 2016).

Samuel