Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E have no effect

[Graham Lawrence]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:27:11 -0800
> Graham Lawrence <gl00637 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > MC 4.8.13 on arch linux 3.18.0.1 mainline
> >
> > My laptop lacks certain keys, notably Home, End, PgUp and
> > PgDown.  Alt-V and Ctrl-V provide the function of PgUp and
> > PgDown.  Supposedly Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E should supply those of
> > Home and End, but in fact do nothing.
>
> Hmm, and prooflinks for "should" part?
>

Not sure what you mean by this, but I'm referring to both /etc/mc/mc.keymap
and /etc/mc/mc.default.keymap as the source of "should ...", which on my
system lists these two entries
    Home = ctrl-a; alt-lt; home; a1
    End = ctrl-e; alt-gt; end; c1
None of these options  work for me.

>
> > I've tried putting
> > other key combos in mc.keymap instead, but they also had no
> > effect.
> >
> > Do I need to make a special compile of MC to get their
> > particular functionality, or is there some other means to
> > that end?
>
> You can try "Learn keys" functionality to redefine mc keys to some
> extent.
>

That I did, with no success.  I duly pressed <Space> with Home and End the
current selection, pressed Ctrl-A/E respectively and then repeated that
key-combo when the Help message cleared, but in neither case did it then
show OK for the choice.

>
> > --
> > Graham Lawrence
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Paul                          mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com
>



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Graham Lawrence
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