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From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett)
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Subject: Re: supressing auto-repeat
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Date: 9 Jun 89 12:30:53 GMT
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> *Excerpts from xpert: 8-Jun-89 supressing auto-repeat*
> *ekberg@osage.csc.ti.com (1617)*

> #define AUTOREPEAT_INITIATE   (200)           /* milliseconds */
> #define AUTOREPEAT_DELAY      (50)            /* milliseconds */

> We changed the 200 to 500 which matches the value for a VT100.  Many
> people at our site noted that 0.2 sec is too fast -- especially when
> pressing the D key to delete mail messages.


We're using values of 500 and 25 on our Sun 3/50s, which seems to work fine for
us.  I haven't had any complaints about autorepeat speeds using these values.


Tom Crockett

ICASE
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering

M.S. 132C                               e-mail:  tom@icase.edu
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