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Speeding up the Cygwin console keyboard response
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Speeding up the Cygwin console keyboard response
- From: Victor Schneider <vischne at ibm dot net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 07:49:29 GMT
Somewhere in the implementation of the getch() and fread(stdin, &ch, n) code,
there is a callback function with a WM_KEYDOWN case.
Whatever is responding when a key is pressed is _not_ looking at the count
field of the returned message. Which explains why the arrow keys can't
move fast. Since I can call up a Dos window under Windows 95 and run the
DJGPP version of pico.exe and the programmer's workshop version of micro-
emacs.exe in that Dos window, I can easily convince you that the arrow
keys are much more responsive in those ported Unix apps, and in the Borland
version of lynx.exe than under Cygwin.
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