Editing with mc

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:11 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>>> Same unexpected behaviour here;
>>> mc-20100509_git (Slackware-current)
>>
>> which terminal emulator are you using?
>
> I bet they are using the some vte-based terminal emulator and mc is
> built without support for X.
>
> I have reported this bug (vte sends identical keycodes for Home / End
> and CTRL+Home / CTRL+End) no less than one year ago, and someone did
> even come up with a patch, but... since vte is basically abandonware the
> bug is still there and the only "fix" right now is to build mc with X,
> so that it can query the modifier state this way...
>
> .... or become the maintainer of vte and fix it for good.
>
> P.S. Since you are listening, is it possible to make xterm send
> different key codes for Enter and CTRL+Enter? Right now, the difference
> between those is only detected if mc is using X to query the state of
> the modifier keys.

offhand, I think that's only via the modify-other-keys feature,
which can make most non-special keys send an escape sequence.
For example, control/enter would send \E[27;5;13~
(\E is escape).

One drawback to that feature is that shifted keys are handled the same 
way, shift-L becomes \E[27;2;76~

that may be what you want...

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