--with-ncurses problems
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Sat Aug 25 19:21:24 UTC 2001
Hi!
> I thought --without-slang would skip the S-Lang tests in
> configure, but it doesn't.
That's because it wasn't me who wrote this test. I hope to fix it some
day.
> OK. It compiled. I'm using screen on Linux console. Problems:
>
> - Syntax highlighting doesn't work at all. I thought the
> --libdir option was causing the problem, but tried symlinking
> it to /usr/local/lib/mc to no avail.
It is a known limitation of the ncurses build. It should be fixed - I see
no fundamental reasons for this limitation.
> - Shift+FX doesn't work. I can't get Midnight Commander to
> create a new file in the editor and other options that use
> Shift+Fx.
I could not reproduce this problem. Please give more information -
terminal name, ncurses version, OS version etc.
> Shift+F1 prints [25~
Where? In mc? Or in dd?
> Shift+F2 [26~[28~
This looks bad. I'm not surprised that MC has hard time learning this.
> Learn keys doesn't help, but it recognizes the keys. Only
> until F10.
>
> And some keys aren't recognized. As an example, if I try End:
>
> Cannot accept this key
>
> You have entered "h"
But what exactly happens when you try to teach MC F11, F12 etc?
> Maybe time to declare ncurses BROKEN ? -:)
No. I haven't seen a single detailed bugreport regarding ncurses support
in MC (your message doesn't qualify as a detailed bugreport for obvious
reasons).
But old UNIX curses are not supported anymore in the head branch.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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