Re: mc 4.8.11 on ubuntu 3.13.0.44 (LTS 14.04.1)

[Doug Minett <doug minett gmail com>]

Trey,

Any further thoughts on the issue I reported? Since I am using the con, could this be an Ubuntu shell issue?

Thanks.
doug.

On Jan 30, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Doug Minett <doug minett gmail com> wrote:

> Trey,
>
> I’m not using an emulator on the ubuntu box - just the console(s). mc works fine on all consoles (1-6). It 
> is when I ssh into the same box - from any of those cons - I encounter the delay weirdness.
>
> mutt or aptitude don’t exhibit the problem, nor does an interpreted environment that relies on termcap. I’m 
> not sue what mutt and aptitude use.
>
> I’ve also looked at stty settings also - and don’t see anything there jumping out at me. 
>
> It seems to be a characteristic of the ubuntu ssh client/server that only affects mc expectations of its 
> shell?
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> many thanks.
> doug.
>
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 6:18 AM, Trey Blancher <trey blancher net> wrote:
>
> > Doug,
> >
> > That OS X Terminal works OK suggests a problem in your terminal emulator on Ubuntu.  Which one do you use? 
> >  I don't connect to Ubuntu but I connect all the time from rxvt-unicode-256color to my Debian VPS via mc + 
> > SSH, and I don't have the problem.  As a quick test, try going to your virtual terminals 
> > ([Ctrl]+Alt+F[1-6]), and see if mc does the same thing there.
> >
> > Trey Blancher
> > trey blancher net
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 04:40:35PM -0500, Doug Minett wrote:
> > > mc works fine when on the con locally.
> > >
> > > I have spent hours trying to figure out why a console ssh connection to ubuntu (from ubuntu - even the 
> > > same ubuntu box) results in the first (2) key (any key) depressions being ignored until a 3rd key (any 
> > > key) is depressed and all characters are echoed. this is true whether the key is a cursor key, tab key, 
> > > etc. this makes mc unusable using ssh.
> > >
> > > I read some discussion about the esc esc delay issue and don’t think that this has anything to do with 
> > > that issue. I played with various params which appear to work as advertised.
> > >
> > > If I ssh from osx terminal con to the same ubuntu box and try the same con ssh connection, no problem. 
> > > Also no problem if I ssh from the ubuntu box to a debian box running 3.2.0.4.
> > >
> > > I know that ubuntu uses dash shell by default and tried switching to bash. This didn’t help. I have also 
> > > checked environment variables generated by ‘set’ and saw very little difference between local login 
> > > (before ssh) and ssh login (after ssh login).
> > >
> > > What am I missing? Thanks.
> > >
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