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When Alt+a looks the same as Esc+a, then the program has to wait biefly after it sees you press Esc - the continuation could mean it's really Alt+a you want to
by kzrdude 4y ago
When Alt+a looks the same as Esc+a, then the program has to wait biefly after it sees you press Esc - the continuation could mean it's really Alt+a you want to send.
That latency interferes just with a plain Esc key press. There's no weird use case in this.
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoEither my terminal does some magic or this is not true. Most of my vim & tmux commands are alt+something and these execute as soon as I press the bind. Or does tmux make them work automagically?
- kzrdude 4y agoMaybe https://neovim.io/doc/user/options.html#'ttimeout' https://neovim.io/doc/user/options.html#'ttimeout' could be evidence that it's not a problem that I've made up, it exists in some terminals. My comment was about that latency of pressing a single Esc.
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoI also can't say I've noticed such latency