Subj : ansi escape detection
To   : Tracker1
From : sinister x
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 12:37 pm

    
 > I know that after pressing escape, that sync waits a second or two to see
 > if [ follows it, maybe, given the way TCP works with most term programs,
 > this c be reduced to say 500ms? I like to use escape to allow the exit
 > from a menu and the wait makes things seem really sluggish.. just a
 > thought/suggestion. -- Michael J. Ryan - tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)net
 > - www.theroughnecks.net icq: 4935386 - AIM/AOL: azTracker1 - Y!:

It's a polling issue, you can either mod the source yourself and lower the 
timeout (not a generally good idea), or you can rewrite your waiting code like 
I had to do for Psylent to get escapes to work (I originally did a timeout 
method), basically I do no timeout on mine. I also read in an extra key for 
each keypress to see what follows, the code generally works the way I have it 
written (it's much more complicated than that) b/c of the way that tcp packets 
are structured. If you get an escape and that's it, in my case it would be 
followed by a timeout (-1) so I can tell right there it's a regular escape.

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