Re: Changes in the keymap?




Amen to Chris. Though I do not know if the post below was from a developer or from an individual user. But I would say that the key mappings of MC are so well established by long tradition that they really ought not to be messed with. And in particular things like Cntrl-C really do have long established meanings of their own, which even pre-date both Midnight Commander and its long-ago ancestor Norton Commander and are used in those old meanings in many other contexts, too. For example in my mail program Cntrl-C means "Cancel" whatever one was doing, which is essentially what Cntrl-C always used to mean.



On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, chris glur via mc wrote:

No!
Remapping COPY from F5 to Ctrl-C
is a disaster.
Since the 70s orignal DOS NortonComndr,
through linux, Win, Android.
<copy> <=> F5
In ALL computing Ctrl-C has a SPECIAL meaning.
Don't map concepts to the current ENGLISH word,
unless it's for some strangely disabled user.

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   1. How to Get Midnight Comannder to Change the Help Text to
      Reflect   Changes in the Keymap? (Hunter Jozwiak)


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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 13:30:43 -0400
From: Hunter Jozwiak <hunter t joz gmail com>
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Subject: How to Get Midnight Comannder to Change the Help Text to
        Reflect Changes in the Keymap?
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Hello,

I made a few changes to the Midnight Commander keybindings, namely I mapped
copy to ctrl-c and quit to ctrl-q. However, the help bar on the bottom
still shows copy as F5 and quit as F10; how do I fix this problem?

Thanks,

Hunter
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