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akrennmair / newsbeuter

Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals.
http://www.newsbeuter.org/
MIT License
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Timeout for exit confirmation message #479

Open ghost opened 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Newsbeuter version (copy from newsbeuter -v): newsbeuter 2.9 - http://www.newsbeuter.org/ Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Andreas Krennmair

newsbeuter is free software and licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License. Type `newsbeuter -vv' for more information.

Compilation date/time: Dec 7 2015 04:47:17 System: Linux 4.8.13-1-ARCH (x86_64) Compiler: g++ 5.3.0 ncurses: ncurses 6.0.20161224 (compiled with 6.0) libcurl: libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2j zlib/1.2.11 libpsl/0.16.1 (+libicu/58.2) libssh2/1.8.0 (compiled with 7.46.0) SQLite: 3.16.2 (compiled with 3.9.2) libxml2: compiled with 2.9.2

When exit confirmation message appears, you need to press specifically 'n' to make it go away if you don't want to quit.

Other users may find a timeout (as an option, value set by the user - something like 2.5 for two and a half seconds) more practical/comfortable. If nothing is pressed for 2.5 seconds (just one example), the confirmation message goes away and you don't quit the program. If something is pressed during those 2.5 seconds, but not 'n' or 'y', the program will keep waiting for your input while displaying the confirmation message for another 2.5 seconds.

Minoru commented 7 years ago

Saving one rare keystroke probably isn't worth the programming effort, but if someone is willing to implement this, I won't mind merging it.