Subj : Re: ansi escape detection
To   : Tracker1
From : Deuce
Date : Tue Aug 23 2005 02:54 am

  Re: Re: ansi escape detection
  By: Tracker1 to Deuce on Tue Aug 23 2005 00:16:00

 > > Got any juicy examples?
 > 
 > Mainly in some of my scrolling list type menus, where you would use up/down
 > arrow keys, but have escape as a back option.. why would it be a bad idea to
 > reduce the poll/wait time for an escape followed by the ansi sequence.

Mostly because some telnet clients may be stupid... or... packets may fragment
at exactly the wrong place.

In practice, over TCP/IP, ESC sequences *should* arrive in the same packet.  In
the case where they don't however, you would get all kinds of spurious ESCs...
that is to say, pressing UP would *sometimes* be identical to pressing ESC. 
Which is behaviour you're almost guaranteed to not want.

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