On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:06:11AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Curses applications behave differently if you type those
> > three characters, one-by-one, because of timing.
> 
> We try pretty hard to avoid using such timeouts in Emacs, so by and
> large this doesn't apply to Emacs at all.

As it happens, that rule of thumb doesn't apply to terminals:

https://github.com/mirrors/emacs/blob/master/src/keyboard.c

(it's implemented there, at any rate)

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