[mc] How to configure keyboard shortcuts

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

> Findings summary:
> 
> * A newly assigned combo in the users file does is not overriding the system default, but adding to it. It makes sense, as there are several actions with multiple key shortcuts possible, seperated by a ; char.

You should unbind the shortcuts you want to (re-)use first. If you think about it, given mc’s model of hierarchically applying binding definitions on top of each previous state, as explained on the page that I’ve linked, that would make sense.

> * It seems as though a users ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap file is read at all ?

~ % cat ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap 
[filemanager]
Help = 
View = f3 ; f1

Works for me.

> --> Can we identify if users config files are read at all ?
> 
> There does not seem any debug output on stderr does it ? Like, i could make these files non-readable and we'll see if mc barfs.

man strace

> ps. I just now  also found that ctrl-space calculates the dir space but when finished, the result immediately disappears …

Cannot reproduce.