GNU bug report logs - #17497
24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thomas Dickey <dickey <at> his.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 17497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:47:42 -0400

>> > Curses applications behave differently if you type those
>> > three characters, one-by-one, because of timing.
>> We try pretty hard to avoid using such timeouts in Emacs, so by and
>> large this doesn't apply to Emacs at all.
> As it happens, that rule of thumb doesn't apply to terminals:
> https://github.com/mirrors/emacs/blob/master/src/keyboard.c
> (it's implemented there, at any rate)

Where do you see the timeouts?

Or rather, no, don't bother, because even there might be problem in how
we process the input escape sequences, these are unrelated to the
display glitches we see.  So let's focus on the display glitches.


        Stefan

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