On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > >i don't know why it's doing it when you press esc twice. i have to press > >esc four times to do it... > > Is this on a console or over a terminal? It may be that you have to press > escape twice to get a single escape character to be read; that is, > escape may be acting as a sticky modifier, and you have to hit it > twice to get the actuasl keycode.
rxvt, actually. Same happens in a console, and in a telnet from my console to my own machine. Escape probably is acting as a sticky modifier, since that's what it is in a console. Naturally then, esc-esc qould be necessary to send a plain escape character to the console.
