On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:41:22PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > He who fears something gives it power over him. > - Arab Proverb So why worry about VFS written without security in mind? ;) Mind you, I do worry about security. Only paranoics survive.
> That's how mc works, except that "Learn Keys" is limited to most common > key combinations, which should be fixed. True. > First of all, a little correction - ioctls are used on Linux console. > Under X, the modifiers are read using XQueryPointer() function, and only > if X support is enabled (--with-tm-x-support). One should think more before posting. Yes, you are absolutely right. > As a side note, perhaps it better to reverse the strings to indicate that > it's the sequence that is unique, not the key: > > "\e[D"=left # Left > "\e[d"=left # rxvt Shift-Left > "\e[2D"=left # xterm Shift-Left Side note?! Multiple escape seqences to a key without modifiers would solve my problem on Linux console! Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I'll take a closer look on the code when I have more time. > This trick should work on the console too. I know, it's not intuitive. It looks intuitive enough to me. > You are confusing two issues here. ioctls are useful because without them > users would be forced to redefine their keymaps. It may be OK for you, > but not for an average user, who has no time to tweak every program. I must admit you are right. > On the other hand, using ioctls are the sole means to tell Shift-Left from > Left is wrong. I'd rather have this in my .mc/ini: > > [terminal:rxvt] > shift-left=\e[d > shift-right=\e[c > shift-up=\e[a > shift-down=\e[b > > I think I'll add it if it's not very hard. As for the GUI, I don't know. > There are too many little nuances that are hard to represent on screen > without confusing some users. IMO, GUI is fine as it is. If you could assign multiple escape seqences to a key without modifiers why would you want to add shift-Arrows? > If I put those shifted keys to mc.lib, power-users like you will find > them, and they will work at least on some popular terminals by default, > even without X support. That should be a good first step. I see. That explains what you wrote above. I have X support enabled, so I'd be happy even without the proposed shift-Arrows. Thanks for your info. Regards, Jiri _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
