Thanks for the tip. I installed the ncurses-term package and set TERM to
konsole, but the effect is the same; mc will still not recognize the keys I
mentioned in my first email. I tried various combinations of TERM and
Konsole keyboards to no avail.


2010/2/1 Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com>

> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Miguel Pérez wrote:
>
>  Interesting, I'm using Konsole from KDE 3.5 (KDE 3.5.10, Qt 3.3.8b,
>> Konsole
>> 1.6.6) which doesn't have a "konsole" map nor my terminfo database (which
>> came in the Ubuntu package ncurses-base 5.6+20071124-1ubuntu2) has an
>> entry
>> for konsole.
>>
>
> In Debian, that (and gnome, etc), are in ncurses-term
>
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-vt100
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-16color
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-linux
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-256color
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-vt420pc
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-xf4x
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-base
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-solaris
> /usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-xf3x
>
> The often-presented argument that installing ncurses-term involves a large
> amount of diskspace loses effect when compared to a "minimal" install of KDE
> or GNOME (several hundred megabytes).
>
>
>
>> 2010/2/1 Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com>
>>
>>  On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Miguel Pérez wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I love the ability to customize keybindings in 4.7. However, I've
>>>> noticed
>>>>
>>>>> some keys cannot be bound because they aren't recognized properly by
>>>>> Midnight Commander. When you hit an unrecognized sequence, mc will
>>>>> simply
>>>>> skip the escape sequence up to a point and print the rest of it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using Konsole, set to the xterm (XFree 4.x.x) keyboard, and $TERM
>>>>> is
>>>>> xterm. These are the key combinations that produce escape sequences but
>>>>> aren't recognized by mc. Everything else either works, or doesn't
>>>>> produce
>>>>> a
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> konsole doesn't send escape sequences that match xterm.
>>>> Use "infocmp konsole xterm" to see this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ...of course that's assuming that mc relies on the terminal description
>>> (I seem to recall some discussion where it's using separate configuration
>>> information).
>>>
>>> Assuming that it's actually using the terminal description, e.g., from
>>> ncurses, then mismatches would be due to (a) not using TERM=konsole, and
>>> (b)
>>> futher mismatches might be due to differences between the current konsole
>>> application and the ncurses description.
>>>
>>> A quick check (using tack and TERM=konsole for konsole 2.3.2) shows no
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thomas E. Dickey
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>>> ftp://invisible-island.net
>>>
>>>
>>
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