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Re: notimeout


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: notimeout
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:12:01 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:49:58AM -0800, Don Mahurin wrote:
> I can't get notimeout to work.

I don't seem to have a test/example for this call.  I see that dialog uses
wtimeout(), and other programs use nodelay().  Those related calls seem to
work properly.
 
> For example I tried adding some "notimeout(stdscr, TRUE)" in various
> places to lxdialog code (linux menuconfig).  Also instead of stdscr, I
> tried using the 'dialog' or 'menu' that wgetch was called with.
> I had no success, always a delay when pressing escape.
> 
> Can someone point me to a vi clone that uses ncurses and notimeout to
> get rid of the Escape delay?
> Or give a a hint to what could make this call [not] work?
> 
> -don

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