ifHold does not activate on timeout

[mhantsch]

ifHold currently does not activate until I release the key. It should already activate on timeout.

My steps to reproduce:

graveTilde macro bound to the ` ~ key:

ifShortcut 1 exec quoteLong
ifHold exec quoteLong
holdKey graveAccentAndTilde

When I tap it, I get a grave accent. ✔️
When I combo it with 1, I immediately get the quoteLong result. ✔️
When I hold it, nothing happens until I release it. Then I get the quoteLong result. 🤔

This should resolve as soon as the timeout is reached.

Configuring set holdTimeout 350 in $onInit doesn't make a difference.

quoteLong just types two lines of triple backticks with an empty line in between, and places the cursor on the empty line, ready to have some code pasted into it:

tapKeySeq graveAccentAndTilde graveAccentAndTilde graveAccentAndTilde
tapKeySeq enter enter
tapKeySeq graveAccentAndTilde graveAccentAndTilde graveAccentAndTilde enter
tapKeySeq up up

[firngrod]

While you hold the key, ifShortcut waits indefinitely for another key. Then when you release, ifHold evaluates on a now very long keypress and evaluates true. Try adding a timeout to ifShortcut.

[mhantsch]

Why does it wait indefinitely and not just until the timeout I've configured in Typing behaviour?

[firngrod]

Because it's not a secondary key feature, it's it's own thing. I can understand the confusion.

[mhantsch]

Ah, it would help in the documentation to explain which macro commands are affected by which config parameter, and which takes which defaults from where.