Subj : Re: ansi escape detection
To   : Deuce
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Aug 28 2005 09:53 pm

Deuce wrote:
>> 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.

I understand that, and am not suggesting outright removal of the pause, just 
adjusting it to a value less than a full second.. since even a 1/2 second ping 
is increasingly rare, IMHO that would be a good place to have it (500ms)

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