Re: feature question

[Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert web de>]

Hello Pavel,

thanks for your response.

> Hello, Bernd!
>
>
> Every time you report anything related to the keyboard and screen output,
> please give some details about the terminal and the value of the TERM
> environment variable.  Also, the output of "mc -V" would be more useful
> than just the version, since it mentions the features of the build, and
> could possibly have answered your question already.

O.k., for this version it works:
bernd riemann w_TDM>mc -V

GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.55
Edition: text mode with X11 support to read modifiers
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs
With builtin Editor
Using S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
Using locale "POSIX" (from environment variable LC_ALL)


TERM is xterm, but it also works when TERM is vt100, vt220, etc.

> Now I'm wildly guessing that your terminal is xterm (or some other
> terminal for X11) and Ctrl-j works as you describe it when mc is compiled
> with support for X11 events (option --with-tm-x-support for configure).

On ssh'ing to another computer without X-forwarding, Ctrl-j indeed doesn't 
give the expected result, so it seems you are right.

> Note that such behavior is not documented - it's a side effect rather than
> the expected result.

Hmm, its a nice side effect (I didn't know about it, but someone who had 
formerly used the Norton Commander, pressed this combination and it gave the 
result he expected). 

Can you give me a hint which source-files are responsible for keyboard short 
cuts, so that I could  make it work without X-support (of course, only if I 
have time and this is currently very limited).

Bernd