> Matthias Hopf writes:
> > > # 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 :-(
>
> Bummer!
>
> Have you tried mutt compiled vs slang instead of curses? I use an IRIX
> system when in Boston, and haven't had the esc problem - but am using
> slang instead of curses.
Actually, I wanted to avoid this ;-) Because it means that I have to
install slang first...
I guessed there was a simple sollution to this problem (as there are some
more programs that run into the same problem), but as it seems there is
no easy cure.
Anyone of the programmer team willing to add a 'ctimeout' (or similar)
variable for setting the timeout value manually?
CU
Matthias
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