Re[2]: mcedit: usage of Ctrl-Home, Shift-arrows, Ctrl-Insert and similar keys

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello Dmitry,

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Dmitri Geller wrote:

> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > It is a great feature of mcedit to support Ctrl-Home, Shift-arrows,
> > > Ctrl-Insert+Shift-Insert on the Linux console. But I would like to
> > > have these keys in mcedit running in a text terminal session.
> > > ...
>
> PT> What you are trying to do won't work when you're using putty.
> PT> MC uses linux specific ioctls to read the keyboard modifier
> PT> state on the linux console or queries the X server when
> PT> possible. In your case neither of those method won't work.
>
> Thank you Pavel!
> It means on a proper X terminal it works.
> Is there any recommendations about X terminal and settings for MC?

On windows you can use Cygwin/X (http://x.cygwin.com/) or
any other X server for Win32.