Re: DELAY after ESCAPE

bochner@das.harvard.edu (Harry Bochner) writes: >In article <C35B7F.697@ipars.cts.com>, scotto@ipars.cts.com (Scott O'Connell) >writes: >|> I'm just getting back into programming with Informix 4GL 4.10 and was >|> noticing the delay time between pressing ESCape and Informix realizing >|> that it should act upon the ESCape. >|> I recall that there is some way to change this delay but can't find it >|> documented anywhere. >I have some old mail from the mailing list that says you can adjust it using >the DBESCWT environment variable, e.g.: >setenv DBESCWT 2 >Caveats: >1) I haven't tried this myself. >2) I can't find documentation for it in the 4.00 or 4.10 manuals. >3) I don't know what the units are. Tenths of a second? Hundredths? The time units are seconds. The reason for the delay is that INFORMIX cannot know if the ESC really means "ACCEPT" or if it is the start of an escape se- quence produced by a function or cursor key (on my terminal, "cursor up" is ESC A). So it just waits some seconds to be sure that no other characters are following. >If it's a new project, with users that aren't already conditioned to using >ESCape, you should consider setting the "ACCEPT" key to something else. That >seems like the neatest solution. (Alas, my users are conditioned ...:-() -- ============================================================================== Engelbert Teupe STM QM 123 email: teupe.muc@sni.de Siemens-Nixdorf AG "Synergy at work" ==============================================================================