On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:42:25PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> On 2000.06.30, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "brd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've noticed that when tryting to tag a whole thread with the <esc>-t
> > combo, sometimes it will work and sometimes not. I may have to do it a
> > few times before it works, but it's not the same number each time. I
> > think I've noticed the same thing with body search <esc>-b, so maybe
> > it's a bigger problem with my setup.
>
> I haven't investigated this at all, but if I type ESC-anything too
> quickly, it doesn't go in. If I pause half a second between ESC and
I'm told that slang does not use a timeout when processing function keys
(i.e., strings that usually begin with ESC). There may be a timeout
either in mutt (to compensate), or one actually in slang. That should
be tunable. In curses it defaults to a second (across the whole string),
and is tunable.
vi does something similar, as do all the vi-style editors
> the next stroke, it's fine. This has been so with mutts from 1.0 (I
> think) through 1.3.3, on Solarises 7 and 8, with slangs 1.3.9 and 1.4.1
> (and maybe also 1.2.2). I haven't tried with ncurses.
>
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> -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
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