Re: Escape delay

Posted in 1995

Mark S. Winsor — Sat, 4 Feb 1995 21:42:29 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

chriss@brttsg.demon.co.uk (Chris Stone) writes: > In article: <1995Jan30.221820.10688@mswinsor> wmark@mswinsor (Mark S. Winsor) writes: > > > > What is the method for lowering the ESC delay in Informix? It doesn't seem > > to use the Unix env variable. We have users complaining of the slowness > > of the software, but it seems to be just a perception based on the ESC > > slowness. I'd prefer not to recode the application if it could be avoided. > > > > > > I am curious about this also. The delay seems to only occur in VT-nnn > mode, including XTerm. There is no delay when using Wyse-nn emulation > however... I have checked termcap/info and can see nothing obvious. > That is because wyse does not use ESC in f-keys or arrows. The delay is due to the termcap waiting to see if the escape is part of a larger esc sequence.