Why does one have to "Press any key to continue" after running a command?

[Theodore Kilgore]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Mike wrote:

> 
> F9 -> Options -> Configuration... -> Pause after run -> set to Never.

OK, I will try that. Right now it is something like "Only on dumb 
terminals" or similar wording. But the explanation in the man page for 
this option was not exactly clear.

Thanks.

> 
> 
> On 2016-08-23 10:38, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
>
>       For example:
>
>       Running Midnight Commander, with the panels turned on, I do a
>       command such as
>
>       latex Cntl-Enter
>
>       (using the Cntl-Enter seqiemce tp bring a filename down to the
>       command line, so that it says
>
>       latex file.tex
>
>       Then after the latex command has done its thing one does not get
>       the panel back. Instead, one sees "Press any key to continue"
>
>       Perhaps there is a good reason for doing things this way, but I
>       cannot figure out what it might be.
>
>       Also I can not find any option in "man mc" which would look as
>       though it ought to be what one should do to turn this off.
>
>       Theodore Kilgore
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