/* First, assume that we got a meta sequence. Set meta_key
* to TRUE and save the character we got as the result. We
- * do this so that if there's a delay greater than nodelay()
- * between Escape and the character we got (after we
- * ungetch() it below), it'll still be properly interpreted
+ * do this so that if the keyboard buffer is full when we
+ * send back the character we got below (in which case we'll
+ * lose that character), it'll still be properly interpreted
* as a meta sequence. */
*meta_key = TRUE;
retval = tolower(kbinput);