Hello! Quoting bulia byak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Now that the handling of keys in mc is definitely > improving, do we still need the old esc-prefixed way of > entering keys as the default? On the other hand, the > counterintuitive behavior of esc is one of the major > deterrents for newbie users and one of the reasons > that some people consider mc "weird" and "unusable" > (I'm speaking from experience here). Agreed. > What I propose is this: for backward compatibility, > keep both "old" and "new" modes as they are, but add a > third more which removes any delays after pressing esc, > and make this mode the default on new installations. > No new keyboard handling code needs to be written; we > can reuse the code of the "new mode" but with a delay > set to some small value instead of one second. Maybe the delay should be an integer variable in milliseconds? Different terminals, different connections and different users will need different delays. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
