Pin $SHELL to cmd in TestQuoteEntry and TestReplacePlaceholder

ESCDELAY=0 makes the retry count zero, so the wait added in d0377ed had
no effect and the reply still leaked. Past the introducer these bytes
cannot be the ESC key, so waiting for them adds no Escape latency.

- Wait at least defaultEscDelay, honour a larger ESCDELAY
- Lone ESC still honours ESCDELAY=0, measured 3ms to exit either way

Fix #4899

src/terminal_test.go

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ func replacePlaceholderTest(template string, stripAnsi bool, delimiter Delimiter
 }
 
 func TestReplacePlaceholder(t *testing.T) {
+	// Pin $SHELL so the quoting style doesn't depend on the test runner's shell
+	t.Setenv("SHELL", "cmd")
+
 	item1 := newItem("  foo'bar \x1b[31mbaz\x1b[m")
 	items1 := [3][]*Item{{item1}, {item1}, nil}
 	items2 := [3][]*Item{
@@ -255,6 +258,9 @@ func TestQuoteEntry(t *testing.T) {
 	unixStyle := quotes{``, `'`, `'\''`, `"`, `\`, `\`}
 	windowsStyle := quotes{`^`, `^"`, `'`, `\^"`, `\\`, `\`}
 	var effectiveStyle quotes
+
+	// Pin $SHELL so the quoting style doesn't depend on the test runner's shell
+	t.Setenv("SHELL", "cmd")
 	exec := util.NewExecutor("")
 
 	if util.IsWindows() {

src/tui/light.go

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ const (
 	offsetPollTries = 10
 	queryTimeout    = 500 * time.Millisecond
 	maxInputBuffer  = 1024 * 1024
+	escapeLookback  = 256
 	maxSelectTries  = 100
 )
 
@@ -338,6 +339,45 @@ func getEnv(name string, defaultValue int) int {
 	return atoi(env, defaultValue)
 }
 
+// Bytes of a CSI sequence: parameter and intermediate bytes continue it, a
+// final byte ends it. Order is not enforced. Strictness would only make fzf
+// give up on a sequence it could have framed.
+//
+// https://vt100.net/emu/dec_ansi_parser
+func csiContinues(b byte) bool { return b >= 0x20 && b <= 0x3f }
+func csiFinal(b byte) bool     { return b >= 0x40 && b <= 0x7e }
+
+// incompleteEscape reports whether the buffer ends in an escape sequence that
+// has not been terminated yet. The read loop keeps waiting in that case, so the
+// parser is never handed a fragment to guess at.
+func incompleteEscape(buffer []byte) bool {
+	// Only the tail can hold a sequence still arriving. This runs once per byte
+	// read, so scanning all of a large paste would make the read quadratic.
+	tail := buffer
+	if len(tail) > escapeLookback {
+		tail = tail[len(tail)-escapeLookback:]
+	}
+	start := bytes.LastIndexByte(tail, Esc.Byte())
+	if start < 0 || len(tail)-start < 2 {
+		return false
+	}
+	switch tail[start+1] {
+	case '[':
+		for _, b := range tail[start+2:] {
+			if csiFinal(b) {
+				return false
+			}
+			if !csiContinues(b) {
+				return false // malformed, do not wait for a terminator
+			}
+		}
+		return true
+	case 'O':
+		return len(tail)-start < 3
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 func (r *LightRenderer) getBytes(cancellable bool) ([]byte, getCharResult, error) {
 	return r.getBytesInternal(cancellable, r.buffer, false)
 }
@@ -378,6 +418,13 @@ func (r *LightRenderer) getBytesInternal(cancellable bool, buffer []byte, nonblo
 			retries = 0
 		}
 		buffer = append(buffer, byte(c))
+		// Keep waiting while a sequence is still arriving. Dropping the budget
+		// after every byte left fzf parsing whatever the read happened to end on.
+		// Past the introducer this is not the ESC key, so the wait costs no
+		// Escape latency and ESCDELAY=0 must not reduce it to nothing.
+		if retries == 0 && incompleteEscape(buffer) {
+			retries = max(r.escDelay, defaultEscDelay) / escPollInterval
+		}
 		pc = c
 
 		// This should never happen under normal conditions,

src/tui/light_escape_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package tui
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestIncompleteEscape(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		buffer string
+		want   bool
+	}{
+		// Complete sequences: nothing to wait for
+		{"\x1b[A", false},
+		{"\x1bOA", false},
+		{"\x1b[1;5A", false},
+		{"\x1b[200~", false},
+		{"\x1b[<0;1;1M", false},
+		{"\x1b[12;34R", false},
+		{"\x1b[?2004;2$y", false},
+		{"\x1b[?1;2c", false},
+
+		// Fragments: keep waiting
+		{"\x1b[", true},
+		{"\x1b[?", true},
+		{"\x1b[1;", true},
+		{"\x1b[?2004;2$", true},
+		{"\x1bO", true},
+		{"\x1b[<0;1;", true},
+
+		// Only the trailing sequence matters
+		{"ab\x1b[?2004;2$", true},
+		{"\x1b[A\x1b[", true},
+		{"\x1b[A\x1b[B", false},
+
+		// Long buffers: only the tail is scanned, so an introducer further
+		// back than escapeLookback is not waited for
+		{strings.Repeat("a", 100000), false},
+		{"\x1b[" + strings.Repeat("a", 100000), false},
+		{strings.Repeat("a", 100000) + "\x1b[1;", true},
+
+		// Not a sequence fzf waits on
+		{"", false},
+		{"abc", false},
+		{"\x1b", false},      // lone ESC, handled by the existing escDelay branch
+		{"\x1ba", false},     // ALT-a
+		{"\x1b[\x01", false}, // malformed, do not stall on it
+	} {
+		if got := incompleteEscape([]byte(c.buffer)); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("incompleteEscape(%q) = %v, want %v", c.buffer, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}