RE: nano hangs when pasting just a few characters

Hi Benno,

Thank you for replying to my email.

On 2025.02.25 08:16 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 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.

Yes, agreed. 

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

Sorry that I was not clear.
My default nano version for my Ubuntu 24.04.1 server is 7.2
As a result of this investigation, I installed 8.3-1.
For ongoing work, and bisected cause and effect commits, I
cloned the git repository and compile it myself executing that
version via, and for example:
/home/doug/temp-git-nano/nano/src/nano bla.txt 2>TRAIL8 

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

Thank you for the patch. It made no difference.
I even tried a much bigger delay and several in between delays.

doug@s19:~/temp-git-nano/nano$ git diff
diff --git a/src/nano.c b/src/nano.c
index b3f51e06..6c9998ff 100644
--- a/src/nano.c
+++ b/src/nano.c
@@ -2483,8 +2483,9 @@ 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. */
+       fprintf(stderr, "HAVE_SET_ESCDELAY\n");
+       set_escdelay(9000);
 #endif

        /* Read the files mentioned on the command line into new buffers. */
diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index 2fff0d9e..b4b8c49b 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -303,12 +303,10 @@ void read_keys_from(WINDOW *frame)
        /* Restore blocking-input mode. */
        nodelay(frame, FALSE);

-#ifdef DEBUG
        fprintf(stderr, "\nSequence of hex codes:");
        for (size_t i = 0; i < waiting_codes; i++)
                fprintf(stderr, " %3x", key_buffer[i]);
        fprintf(stderr, "\n");
-#endif
 }

 /* Return the number of key codes waiting in the keystroke buffer. */

And I still get the "~" and this, which is the same as my earlier email:

doug@s19:~/c$ cat TRAIL8
HAVE_SET_ESCDELAY
Sequence of hex codes: 102
Sequence of hex codes: 168
Sequence of hex codes: 104
Sequence of hex codes: 104
Sequence of hex codes:  1b  5b  32  30  30  7e  31  30  30  30  30  1b  5b  32  30  31
Sequence of hex codes:  7e
Sequence of hex codes:  18
Sequence of hex codes:  6e