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. On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:01 AM <[email protected]> wrote:Send mc mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of mc digest..." Today's Topics: 1. How to Get Midnight Comannder to Change the Help Text to Reflect Changes in the Keymap? (Hunter Jozwiak) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 13:30:43 -0400 From: Hunter Jozwiak <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: How to Get Midnight Comannder to Change the Help Text to Reflect Changes in the Keymap? Message-ID: < caj1hvuf8dpdqnoxeuk6motkfef70nkka8jhvsep0htfteag...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/attachments/20180903/e5e1f050/attachment.html------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc ------------------------------ End of mc Digest, Vol 166, Issue 2 **********************************
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