Re: esc key

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello!

Quoting bulia byak <bulia dr com>:

> Now that the handling of keys in mc is definitely
> improving, do we still need the old esc-prefixed way of
> entering keys as the default? On the other hand, the
> counterintuitive behavior of esc is one of the major
> deterrents for newbie users and one of the reasons
> that some people consider mc "weird" and "unusable"
> (I'm speaking from experience here).

Agreed.

> What I propose is this: for backward compatibility,
> keep both "old" and "new" modes as they are, but add a
> third more which removes any delays after pressing esc,
> and make this mode the default on new installations.
> No new keyboard handling code needs to be written; we
> can reuse the code of the "new mode" but with a delay
> set to some small value instead of one second.

Maybe the delay should be an integer variable in milliseconds?  Different
terminals, different connections and different users will need different delays.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin