patch 8.0.0911: terminal test takes too long commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b81bc77ae7e43b5aac43970aaa4aa70c619e5009 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Aug 11 22:45:01 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0911: terminal test takes too long Problem: Terminal test takes too long. Solution: Instead of "sleep 1" use a Python program to briefly sleep.

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--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/testdir/test_short_sleep.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# Program that sleeps for 100 msec
+#
+# This requires Python 2.6 or later.
+
+import time
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    time.sleep(0.1)  # sleep 100 msec