Terminal answers

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Wiseman,

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 23:59 +0100, Wiseman wrote:
> I think people with Alt/Meta keys (i.e. 99.999% of them) should be
> allowed to set the delay to 0 seconds (or something like 0.01 seconds
> to ensure you don't mistake something like ^[A for Escape, then A).

Escape key timeout can be set (in microseconds) using the environment
variable KEYBOARD_KEY_TIMEOUT_US. You need to use a fairly recent CVS
version (< 2 months) for this.

Leonard.

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