Editing with mc

[Theodore Kilgore]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> 
> > Hallo, Keith,
> > 
> > keith at karsites.net meinte am 29.08.10 in mc 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!
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > >        echo $TERM
> > > > 
> > > > tells "xterm" (running the machine via "putty").
> > > > 
> > > > 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 use konsole terminal emulator part of KDE, under XFCE.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Ctrl keys work OK on konsole.
> > 
> > Under "putty" most (nearly all) ctrl keys work. Only "ctrl end" and
> > "ctrl home" seem to resist.
> 
> I would expect the individual control keys to work.  However, control
> as a modifier to function keys appears to have no effect with putty.
> 
> 
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Hi,

I am also using Slackware (current) and running mc from the Slackware 
package mc-20100509_git-i486-1. I just double-checked to make sure that I 
do not have this problem, and indeed I do not have the problem in 
TERM=linux nor in TERM=xterm.

I did have previously some problems with the Ctrl and Alt keys, though. 
Namely in the xterm the Alt key was not operating properly and I had to 
adopt some kind of fix. More specifically, the Alt-s key combination, 
and such like things, did not work at all. Instead, one had to use 
Ctrl-s to get the same results. This was all very nice, but Alt-o mapped 
to Ctrl-o which has a meaning already, and so on. So, it was a bunch of 
nonsense.

The above problem seems to have been related, essentially, to the problem 
that X has switched over to Unicode key maps.

Just in case that the problem with Ctrl-End and Ctrl-Home is also related, 
here is what I had to do to fix my problem:

Create a local .Xdefaults file in my home directory, with the following 
line in it

XTerm*metaSendsEscape:  true

If this does not fix the weird problem then one might hope that perhaps 
something similar will.

Theodore Kilgore