Re: feature question

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello!

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

Of course, it works as long as you have X11 support and can connect to the
X server.

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

I think it's transmitted as '\n' (newline) over ssh.

> 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). 

Escape Enter should work on every terminal.

> 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).

Some shortcuts are for panels, and can be found in panel_keymap
(src/screen.c).  Some are for the whole mc, and they are in default_map 
and ctl_x_map (both in src/main.c).  Procedures to read the keys are in 
src/key.c.

I think the fundamental problem is that you cannot distinguish between 
Ctrl-J and Enter if you cannot read the keyboard modifiers.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin