Editing with mc

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Helmut Hullen wrote:

> Hallo, Thomas,
>
> Du meintest am 29.08.10 zum Thema Re: Editing with mc:
>
>>>>>> 1) I don't know a short cut key to get to the beginning or to the
>>>>>> end of a file I'm editing, what am I missing?
>
>>>>> CTRL-Home will move you to the top of the file you are editing.
>>>>> CTRL-End ditto end of file.
>
>>>> That's what I'm expecting, but the cursor moves only to the
>>>> beginning or the end of the line!
>
>>> Same unexpected behaviour here;
>>> mc-20100509_git (Slackware-current)
>
>> which terminal emulator are you using?
>
> Sorry - what are you asking for, how can I detect what you want to know?
>
> Do you mean "TERM"?
>
>        echo $TERM
>
> tells "xterm" (running the machine via "putty").

"putty", perhaps.  I don't recall that PuTTY supports key-modifiers for
function-keys.  Probably MinTTY does this...

> Maybe that's the reason. When I go to the real keyboard (and not via
> "putty") then "echo $TERM" tells "linux", and Ctrl-end works as
> described. With old and new versions of mc.

I've seen a few comments about people setting Linux console up to provide 
modified keys, but haven't seen where it's done that way by default.

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