From:	vischne AT ibm DOT net (Victor Schneider)
Subject:	Speeding up the Cygwin console keyboard response
27 Oct 1997 00:35:50 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<1.5.4.16.19971027025153.0c5f6250.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop1.ibm.net>
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To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

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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