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to: deon
from: Mortifis
date: 2021-01-21 00:35:00
subject: Re: Slyedit

 > Howdy,

 > A while ago, I mentioned to you that I often hit a "SlyEdit: Input timeout
 > reached." (and logging in as Sysop I didnt expect to be hit with any
 > timeouts).

 > Lately, I've hit it a few times, which is particuarly annoying when I'm half
 > way thorough a large messages.

 > I've noticed its very much random in its timing. Sometimes it would happen
 > within seconds of composing a messages, othertimes I could leave Slyedit
 > running for hours and it would happen. So I thought it might be a key
 > sequence that I'm hitting.

 > Sure enough, I've noticed that whenever I hit CTRL-Space (I'm on a MAC - and
 > sometimes I hit that by mistake), Slyedit aborts with "Input timeout
 > reached".

 > I dont always use Syncterm - often iTerm (a MAC telnet client), and I dont
 > think it happens in Syncterm.

 > So just wondering if there is a keyboard input sequence that you are not
 > trapping that results in going to "Input timeout reached" and aborts the
 > editor. I can pretty much do it everytime now.

 > ...лоеп

... if that happens in iTerm and not Syncterm (did you test other terminal
clients?) perhaps it is a key binding in iTerm that SlyEdit might be expecting
as an upload attachment type thingy?


~Ephram

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