Re: Help testing release candidate / mc-4.8.26-rc1

[David Haller <dnh opensuse org>]

Hello,

I just compiled mc-4.8.26 (release version) on two systems, one
ancient, one current gentoo and:

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, David Haller wrote:
> 1. mcedit causes a SIGSEGV when jumping out via Ctrl-o, even if just
>   too _look_ at stuff, not doing anything on the (sub-)shell:

I can confirm this is fixed, thanks a lot!

> 2. I don't know if that's a current regression or if that already was
>   the case in 4.8.25 and earlier: if compiled without slang, no mouse
>   actions work anymore (has the curses code gone?)

As ABorodin wrote, known issue, also confirmed fixed.

> 3.: you should add the version to AC_INIT, so that PACKAGE_VERSION
>    gets set correctly during configure. If not, generated docs have
>    'mc-' instead of 'mc-$VERSION' (e.g. mc-4.8.25) as version in e.g. 
>    the pdf ;)

Again known issue, https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3603, still
open but fix pending for .27 ;) I can live with a local fix until
then.

But I noticed a 4th issue, both in 4.8.26_rc1 and 4.8.26 compiled
against ncursesw6, namely that e.g. Ctrl-Pos1/Ctrl-End in mcedit did
nothing at all (it works compiled against slang).

Anyone heard of that / noticed it? Any possible recent change in the
code that could trigger this? I can easily recompile, but I guess I'll
need to install the "broken" version under a different name, because
without mc/mcedit I feel crippled I use Ctrl-{Pos1,End} a lot ;)

-dnh

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