[quoted lines by Gerd Hoffmann on 2014/05/27 at 11:09 +0200]
>Which means exactly? They are not prepared to find data for more than
>one key event in the buffer?
Not exactly. The bad code is an attempt to do a nonblocking keyboard read in
MS-DOS. It goes like this:
1) Peek the DOS keyboard buf
On 05/25/14 14:56, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Michael Tokarev on 2014/05/25 at 16:41 +0400]
>> And provided this hasn't been a problem for so many years,
>
> Perhaps it hasn't been observed before because the curses UI may not have
> that
> many users. I myself must use it as, being
On Di, 2014-05-27 at 04:15 -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Gerd Hoffmann on 2014/05/27 at 07:44 +0200]
>
> >What exactly is the problem?
>
> At the user level, the keyboard appears to be dead. An inspection of the
> udnerlying code reveals that the application itsllf is querying the
[quoted lines by Gerd Hoffmann on 2014/05/27 at 07:44 +0200]
>What exactly is the problem?
At the user level, the keyboard appears to be dead. An inspection of the
udnerlying code reveals that the application itsllf is querying the MS-DOS
keyboard input buffer in a bad way. Those apps can't be
On Mo, 2014-05-26 at 11:19 -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Gerd Hoffmann on 2014/05/26 at 15:38 +0200]
>
> >Tried to make the curses ui a bit more clever? You could try caching
> >the modifier state, then send only the changes. That gets the number of
> >events down to 6 max (4 to u
[quoted lines by Gerd Hoffmann on 2014/05/26 at 15:38 +0200]
>Tried to make the curses ui a bit more clever? You could try caching
>the modifier state, then send only the changes. That gets the number of
>events down to 6 max (4 to update modifier state, 2 for the actual key).
Yes, except that,
[quoted lines by Michael Tokarev on 2014/05/25 at 16:41 +0400]
>In addition to what Peter said, I think this suboption is named poorly.
>Maybe it can be named, say, kbddelay, or keydelay, or something like that.
>Just "delay" may be interpreted as _video_ delay, ie, delay updating picture
>for so
25.05.2014 03:29, Dave Mielke wrote:
> Add support for the "-display curses" option to accept suboptions (-display
> curses[,option...), and add the "delay=" suboption. This suboption
> causes a millisecond-based delay to be inserted in between key events so that
In addition to what Peter said
