Re: No response to ESC until another keystroke

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, John O'Gorman wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> Recent versions of Linux (Redhat 7.3 +, SuSE 9.0) seem to not respond to
> teh ESC key.

I hadn't noticed it.  The ESCDELAY timeout is one second, which does
seem long.  Recently I've been testing some application code which
uses the ESC key, and just to get things done had reset ESCDELAY to 50
(milliseconds).  But the times I've been seeing are consistent, and I
didn't see any problems with typing ESC more than once.

>
> Runing xterm based programs (xterm, konsole, kterm, gnome-terminal, etc)
> applications respond correctly to the ESC key the first time it is hit,
> but all subsequent ESC keystrokes are ignored until another keystroke is
> made.
>
> vim behaves correctly in all cases. My problems show up under Informix
> 4GL programs (including the supplied Informix apps: dbaccess, isql, etc)
>
> Does anyone know if this is is a curses bug - or a window manager, or a
> display manager problem - or a configuration isse of some sort?
>
> I've Googled for this problem but found nothing. On other mailing lists,
> several respondents have confirmed the systems but have no solution.
>
> John O'Gorman
>
>
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