Re: nano hangs when pasting just a few characters

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:15:35 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Op 24-02-2025 om 07:00 schreef Doug Smythies:
> https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/discussions/2330

Well, actually nano no longer hangs for you since version 8.0, but
inserts a spurious tilde (~) after the paste.  Not nice, but... it
doesn't hang.

(You should have reported in your mail the exact version of nano
you are using.)

Please try the attached patch, to see if that helps avoiding the
end-of-paste escape sequence from getting split.


Benno

wait-long.patch (text/x-patch, 441 B)

diff --git a/src/nano.c b/src/nano.c
index b3f51e06..d5309b18 100644
--- a/src/nano.c
+++ b/src/nano.c
@@ -2483,8 +2483,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	typeahead(-1);
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SET_ESCDELAY
-	/* Tell ncurses to pass the Esc key quickly. */
-	set_escdelay(50);
+	/* Tell ncurses to wait long for a sequence after an escape. */
+	set_escdelay(1200);
 #endif
 
 	/* Read the files mentioned on the command line into new buffers. */

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