arrow keys problems

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

> Sometimes, at unpredictable moments, when I use the arrow keys in my
> MC 4.5.55 (build from sources on my Debian Potato Pentium system)
> appear in the command line the letters "A", "B", "C", "D" if I
> remember corectly.

What are "unpredictable moments"?  Do those keys work sometimes?  Can it 
be that you press escape and then the key?

> I applyed the patch that came with the sources to terminfo and added
> the XTerm resources to my ~/.Xdefaults. And I used "Options -> Learn
> Keys" facility, and save them, but the problem is still there.
> 
> I run the "mc" from an XTerm window - you figured that.

What version of xterm?  Try "xterm -v"

Could you please try some other terminal, e.g. rxvt or konsole?

> The same is happening in the editor, too. That is very unpleasant
> because when I scroll the file using the arrow keys I'm getting some
> letters whitout knowing it and I have to search those chars and remove
> them.

So, you can use the arrows to scroll?  What exactly needs to be done to 
reproduce the bug?

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin