Re: Changes in the keymap?

[MartinM <misar ath cz>]

I agree with you,
but I thing he meant only, that help bar ideally should reflect kbd 
mappings, whatever they are (I don't know if F10 and F5 will be 
functional too, if remapped)...
Martin

On 5.9.2018 16:42, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
> 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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> > > 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,
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> > > 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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