no subshell in mc with screen

Frédéric L. W. Meunier lists1 at pervalidus.net
Sat Jan 31 18:38:46 UTC 2004


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> 6.7 Ctrl-O doesn't work at all.  What happens?
>
>    Ctrl-O works if either the subshell is used or the terminal can save
>    the output of the commands so it can be restored.  If neither is
>    true, there is absolutely nothing interesting behind the panels!
>
>    Only few terminals support screen saving.  It's xterm, rxvt and other
>    xterm-like terminals and virtual terminals on Linux and FreeBSD.

I reported a long time ago that it doesn't work with screen on
Cygwin, but it also doesn't on FreeBSD. It does on Linux.

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