Re: Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

["R. Steven Rainwater" <srainwater ncc com>]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:08 +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 10:56 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> > and the GNOME terminal developers are saying they won't change
> > the way the key bindings work because it would break lots of
> > other stuff. 
> 
> Are they saying anything at all?

The GNOME terminal developers have not responded to my emails about the
bug report (yet) but some googling revealed the escape sequence problem
came up before some years ago and they refused to change the behavior
for the reason that a lot of other programs now depended on the current
behavior. I don't have a reference handy though. 

The RedHat bug ID tracking the MC ctrl-pgup/ctrl-pgdn problem is:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551062

The Redhat bug started as an MC bug and was then switched to a GNOME
terminal bug since that's technically where the problem is (even though
it was a change in MC which caused the loss of functionality)

The MC bug (which has been closed as a "won't fix"):

 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/1938



> Actually, I have just tried Ctrl+PgUp / Ctrl+PgDown (which you can free
> from the settings dialog) and Ctrl+Home / Ctrl+End on 4.7.0.1 in Gnome
> Terminal and neither of those takes me to the beginning / end of file.

Yes, neither work for me on RedHat Fedora 12. Prior to this version,
ctrl-pgdn took me to the bottom of the file and ctrl-pgup took me to the
top of the file. That functionality worked on all previous versions of
Fedora and on Fedora 12 when it was first released but broke with they
updated to MC 4.7.0.

> >(other nits that annoy me are the recent breakage of the cursor that
> > makes it float out past the real end of line and not wrap correctly,
> > and the earlier change that replaced white space with gibberish characters)
> 
> Both of these are optional and should be off by default. If this is not
> the case with the latest version, please submit a bug report.

In mc-4.7.0.1-1.fc12, which is standard with Fedora 12, both those
"features" are on by default and I have not seen any obvious way of
turning them off. I highly approve any changes that would make such
unusual behaviors not the default. In the meantime, how could I turn off
those behaviors?

-Steve