Re: Changes in the keymap?
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. <=> 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 wrote: Send mc mailing list submissions to mc@gnome.org 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 mc-requ...@gnome.org You can reach the person managing the list at mc-ow...@gnome.org 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 To: mc@gnome.org 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 ** ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
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. <=> 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 wrote: Send mc mailing list submissions to mc@gnome.org 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 mc-requ...@gnome.org You can reach the person managing the list at mc-ow...@gnome.org 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 To: mc@gnome.org 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 ** ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
How to Get Midnight Comannder to Change the Help Text to Reflect Changes in the Keymap?
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 ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc