> > As mutt behaves well when invoked locally, it most certainly has to do
> > with vt100's brain-dead Esc schemes. I took a (quick) look at the
> > sources but didn't find any possibilities to specify timeouts or
> > anything else.
>
> I recall this happening before to me on some machines when I was over a
> particularly bad net connection. The problem is that the arrow keys
> actually generate a pair of keystrokes, and if there is too much time
> between them, they are interpreted separately.
That's what I mean :)
> The following stuck in my .tcshrc file cured things. I forget which
> program (shell? curses?) made use of this variable, and what the units
> were, but here it is:
>
> # This next rather strange thing insures that DEC arrow keys are interpreted
> # correctly in curses based applications(SC for example) otherwise the ESC
> # is sometimes interpreted as a seperate character.
> setenv ESCDELAY 5000
Unfortunately his environment variable doesn't seem to be interpreted by
my curses library :-(
Sniff...
Matthias
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