Re: accels busted

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> Hi Pavel,
>
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 22:58 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > Odd.
> > > $ rpm -q mc
> > > mc-4.6.1a-0.11.FC4
> > >
> > > No difference...
> >
> > "Me too" is not as effective as providing actual details. I've requested
> > some information which would be useful to track down the problem:
>
> On FC4 I cannot reproduce the fix you propose ("no difference" setting
> or unsetting that option). Build options for mc on FC4 will _most_
> likely not differ from FC3, and same is true for the used tarball (at
> least with respect to this 8-bit option).
>
> So what I'm saying is I do not understand how you came to the conclusion
> that these two issues (8-bit vs. menu hotkeys) are related.

How do you think ? By looking at the source code and when it is not
enough - by debugging. If you've read the link I've posted you should have
understood that I was looking at the code which reads input events
delivered from the terminal. This code is found in get_key_code(). To
enlighten yourself a bit about my reasons search for the following text
'use_8th_bit_as_meta' in the body of get_key_code(). Of course this might
not be the only reason for M + key failing but is for sure a good start.
It is event more interesting what is read from the keyboard when M +
something is pressed but nobody cared to provide information.