Re: Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E have no effect

[Graham Lawrence <gl00637 gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml gmail com> wrote:

Hello,

On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:27:11 -0800
Graham Lawrence <gl00637 gmail com> wrote:

> MC 4.8.13 on arch linux 3.18.0.1 mainline
>
> My laptop lacks certain keys, notably Home, End, PgUp and
> PgDown.  Alt-V and Ctrl-V provide the function of PgUp and
> PgDown.  Supposedly Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E should supply those of
> Home and End, but in fact do nothing.

Hmm, and prooflinks for "should" part?

 

Not sure what you mean by this, but I'm referring to both /etc/mc/mc.keymap and /etc/mc/mc.default.keymap as the source of "should ...", which on my system lists these two entries
    Home = ctrl-a; alt-lt; home; a1
    End = ctrl-e; alt-gt; end; c1

None of these options  work for me.

> I've tried putting
> other key combos in mc.keymap instead, but they also had no
> effect.
>
> Do I need to make a special compile of MC to get their
> particular functionality, or is there some other means to
> that end?

You can try "Learn keys" functionality to redefine mc keys to some
extent.

 

That I did, with no success.  I duly pressed <Space> with Home and End the current selection, pressed Ctrl-A/E respectively and then repeated that key-combo when the Help message cleared, but in neither case did it then show OK for the choice.

> --
> Graham Lawrence



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Graham Lawrence