Re: Mouse stopped working in MC

2020-02-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Frank McCormick" | To: "Thomas Dickey" | Cc: mc@gnome.org | Sent: Sunday, February 2, 2020 4:09:26 PM | Subject: Re: Mouse stopped working in MC | On 2/2/20 1:24 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: |> On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 09:08:33AM -0500

Re: Mouse stopped working in MC

2020-02-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 09:08:33AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On 2/2/20 6:04 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > > I would be careful about assigning blame with xterm maintainer also > > reading this list ;-) Maybe we are doing something that gets xterm > > confused... do you have a way of

Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm

2017-09-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > Thomas, > > The output of locale (invoked without arguments) is as follows, > between the two lines. > > > kilgota@khayyam:/etc/X11/app-defaults$ locale

Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm

2017-09-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 01:58:38PM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > >> > >>I have recently done some upgrades, keeping current with &g

Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm

2017-09-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > I have recently done some upgrades, keeping current with > slackware-64-current. And what has happened is that suddenly MC > started to print funny characters around the panels instead of a screenshot would help: + If it's

Re: Pseudographics in text mode

2011-06-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Anton Shepelev wrote: Hello all, I am having problems setting up mc to display pseu- dographics characters in a text-mode virtual termi- nal. Only the default skin, which does not contain double lines, works well. It is very strange because, if I 'cat' those skin

Re: Missing frame

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 20 May 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:38 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: For the mc problem...I ended up dl'ing the latest mc source compiling and installing it. The Debian Sid version is REALLY old and I had been using my own compiled version. I remember

Re: keystrokes change according to runlevel

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 20 May 2011, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Wednesday 2011-05-18 17:19, Felix Miata wrote: Could some dev look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400552 and either suggest that's really a bug that should be filed in the mc tracker, or comment there as to how to find a solution,

Re: mc from minicom

2010-11-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I am trying to use mc on a machine to which I am connected via minicom (serial connection). MC opens ok, but the keys are not functioning well. minicom acts as a terminal emulator - sort of like a vt100, with color (and odd line-drawing). That

Re: mc from minicom

2010-11-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Eric Gillespie wrote: On 29 November 2010 07:53, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I am trying to use mc on a machine to which I am connected via minicom (serial connection). MC opens ok, but the keys are not functioning

Re: Editing with mc

2010-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Jobst, Du meintest am 29.08.10 zum Thema Re: Editing with mc: 1) I don't know a short cut key to get to the beginning or to the end of a file I'm editing, what am I missing? CTRL-Home will move you to the top of the file you are editing.

Re: Editing with mc

2010-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Helmut Hullen wrote: Hallo, Keith, ke...@karsites.net meinte am 29.08.10 in mc zum Thema Re: Editing with mc: 1) I don't know a short cut key to get to the beginning or to the end of a file I'm editing, what am I missing? CTRL-Home will move you to the top of the file

Re: Alt+function keys and other keys

2010-03-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:14:37PM +0100, Miguel Pérez wrote: 2010/3/12 Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Miguel Pérez wrote: It does, but they are not recognized. Here's an example of different alt-f1 sequences I've seen: Konsole (TERM=konsole), native keyboard

Re: Alt+function keys and other keys

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
). The last I noticed, Konsole doesn't _set_ $TERM, but has a keyboard setting (analogous to the predefined flavors in xterm for Sun, HP, etc). ~Miguel 2010/3/11 Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Miguel P??rez wrote: What I wonder is why even on the reference terminal xterm, some

Re: Alt+function keys and other keys

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Miguel P??rez wrote: What I wonder is why even on the reference terminal xterm, some key escape sequences aren't even recognized, including simple enough ones such as ctrl-f1 or alt-f1. It depends on the keyboard configuration. (The vt220 flavor won't do much with

Re: Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, frank wrote: The bug reports also demonstrate that they don't really understand the issue, and have made a few changes to make it more complicated. (I'm not expecting anything productive from upstream unless a new developer takes over ;-) Upstream of upstream something

Re: Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: and maybe you find something inspiring in http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/24 ;) yes, I noticed some related reports in either Redhat or Gentoo, which add to my to-do list... -- Thomas E

Re: Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: do in any graphical mail reader), i have to: 1) find out that i can do that at all. the man page doesn't contain the term URL once. 2) write a regexp matching urls See the bottom of the app-defaults file. 3) have some process which leads from a

Re: Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Miguel P??rez 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

Re: Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Miguel P??rez 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

Re: Glitches with MC on slackware 13.0

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Stan. S. Krupoderov wrote: InputBackwardDelete = backspace; ctrl-h ;; backspace works, still no ctrl-h InputBackwardDelete = ctrl-h ;; :( no back delete at all It works for me without any additional bindings in mc.keymap. Did you try it in another terminal

Re: alternative key-binding to C-Shift-Enter for use in xterms?

2009-12-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, MK wrote: xterm lacks configurability in this sense, but you should be able to set console to allow anything, even if it means rearranging some key combos taken by it or KDE (since mc keys are not configurable). actually, you can make xterm send something distinct for

Re: ncurses or slang

2009-09-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Slava Zanko wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michail Vidiassov wrote: Dear All, what is the preferred screen output library in the upcoming mc 4.7 and current pre2? I.e. if one can install both ncurses and slang2 on his system what mc is to be

Re: ncurses or slang

2009-09-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Slava Zanko wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 24.09.2009 00:37, Thomas Dickey wrote: Thomas, hi. Glad to see you in this maillist. Preferred to S-Lang (as default), but Ncurses fully supported too. With NCurses we have some restrictions (like trouble

Re: missing line drawing in latest freebsd port

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Viktor Štujber wrote: Just wanted to inform that I resolved the missing line drawing issue by coincidence. The environment variable LANG needs to be set to en_US.UTF-8 (or similar) to make it work. Despite a bunch of other things that were already set to utf-8, this one was

Re: Bold/bright colors don't work as background.

2009-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Josh Rickmar wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Andrew Borodin wrote: OK, thanks for the reply. I was expecting it to work with mc because I am able to use bold colors as backgrounds in other applications like Alpine, for example. I switched to a s-lang build to see if it would

Re: Alt-o in xterm

2009-01-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same. Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an I with two dots above it (0xEF, LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS) UTF-8 locale i guess. On the linux console it gives ESC-o (0x1b6f)

Re: missing line drawing in latest freebsd port

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Viktor ??tujber wrote: The exact procedure on freebsd is to set these two options: [ ] UTF8Build with UTF8 support [ ] SLANGBuild with SLang library Then, according to the following chunk of the makefile, ..if defined(WITH_UTF8) LIB_DEPENDS+=

Re: missing line drawing in latest freebsd port

2008-12-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Viktor Štujber wrote: Just wanted to add that as soon as I disable the '[x] build with SLang library' option, the issue goes away. I would really like to debug the problem myself but I don't have any suitable unix dev environment to do so (plus it's very hard to do any GUI

Re: Issues with recent utf8 patch

2007-11-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Rafa?~B Mu??y?~Bo wrote: It seems that the problem comes from the way ncurses move() works. If I understand it correctly, if move range is outside (0..screen width) / (0..screen height) it moves to the previous/next column/line. When I changed If the move is outside the

Re: colors

2007-08-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Von: Justin Zygmont An: Keith Roberts CC: mc@gnome.org Betreff: Re: colors It seemed, typing mc -c did the trick. In solaris the $TERM was already xterm, but some

Re: Bold colors

2007-04-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Anton Monroe wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:36:30PM +0200, Caj Zell wrote: I have a slight problem with my midnight commander look. I like the fonts when I disable color, mc -b, but running mc with colors makes the fonts look

Re: Request for discussion - how to make MC unicode capable

2007-02-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:57 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: In case of Unicode, the new concept is distinction between bytes and characters. Many functions need to be checked that they don't mix them. It's totally impractical to write a preprocessor

Re: xterm background colour

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Midnight Commander changes xterm background colour to black on exit if run from it. I think it's a bug. There are two places to look: the choice of terminal

Re: xterm background colour

2007-01-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Midnight Commander changes xterm background colour to black on exit if run from it. I think it's a bug. There are two places to look: the choice of terminal description, and possibly a very old version of slang. It's more likely the terminal

Re: mc in xterm: mouse problem

2007-01-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Mattiassich ?kos wrote: Hi, I want to use mc-4.6.1 in the Konsole of KDE3.5. If I press a button on my mouse it writes some characters into the command line: $ #.8M ,8M#,8M-8M#-8M28M#28MB1M#B1M @[EMAIL PROTECTED] 24M#24 I tried it in xterm too, but it doesn't work also. In

Re: [PATCH] corrupted free inodes list

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hi Mikulas, On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 02:15 +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: --- maybe you could change double to long long but I'm not sure if it exists on all machines --- a configure test would probably be needed. Yes. Using floats for

Re: Ctrl+Enter doesn\'t work in MC in xterm

2006-11-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, dusan halicky wrote: Hi. If I run MC in XTERM in X.org, the Ctrl+Enter (copy current filename from cursor to commandline) doesn\'t work. In text console this works fine. I have Slackware 10.2. Instead of copy filename to clipboard, it act like plain Enter. The result

Re: [bug #18136] MC wont work with new bash-3.2 propeply with all directories.

2006-11-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Yes, I read that comment. However I'm not prepared to start breaking the functionality of shells that I never use. This is a rather strange statement. As a developer

Re: [bug #18136] MC wont work with new bash-3.2 propeply with all directories.

2006-11-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Ok. Since I am not native english speaker I cannot judge whether he is recommending it or not. In any case I can see why keeping the old behaviour of 'echo' is important for large scripts, however what we have in MC is nothing as big. I just feel that

Re: Terminal answers

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Wiseman wrote: I also noticed terminals (at least the ones I tried) use ^[ as Esc, and ^[xxx for all other non-printable keys. This has the very undesirable effect of making Esc a dead key (for which mc has a fix, but a delay of 1 second is far too much; I'd rather have 0

Re: Terminal answers

2006-09-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Anton Monroe wrote: Hmm. Something I've noticed in Ncurses-based apps is that blank areas don't erase text. For example, in Pinfo, when I page down, some of the previous screen still shows in the blank areas. It's probably a common problem with a simple explanation.

Re: Terminal answers

2006-09-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Anton Monroe wrote: 3) You could try compiling MC with a different screen library. You have a choice of using the Slang library that comes with MC, or the version of Slang that is (probably) already on your computer, or the version of Ncurses that is (probably)

Re: mc under Eterm

2006-09-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Alessandro Magni wrote: Pity that no chars at all are printed for the graphic chars (yet they are present in the font I use, -bh-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1), but at least mc is usable. This is because you

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: The immediate cause of the problem is that (from some previous run of MC), the ini file says use_8th_bit_as_meta=1 which makes MC change the KEY_RESIZE (0x199) to 0x19. I see it now - that's

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: The immediate cause of the problem is that (from some previous run of MC), the ini file says use_8th_bit_as_meta=1

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: The immediate cause of the problem is that (from some previous run of MC), the ini file says use_8th_bit_as_meta=1 which makes MC change the KEY_RESIZE (0x199) to 0x19. I see it now - that's

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: configure --prefix=/tmp/FOO --without-gpm-mouse --with-screen=ncurses I've configured as you suggested above. The system is FC5 with some missing updates and MC comes from the latest snapshot tarball. I've stopped gpm so that it won't interfere. ...

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: A fix for mc - attached. This patch makes MC use the mouse when built with ncurses. It already does. Would you elaborate why this is necessary ? Perhaps it does in the CVS version (where can I see that?) I

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: A fix for mc - attached. This patch makes MC use the mouse when built with ncurses. It already does. Would you

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: configure --prefix=/tmp/FOO --without-gpm-mouse --with-screen=ncurses I've configured as you suggested above. The system is FC5 with some missing updates and MC

mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
A fix for mc - attached. This patch makes MC use the mouse when built with ncurses. -- Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net # 2006-09-12 # This patch makes MC use the mouse when built with ncurses. # Thomas Dickey # [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mc-4.6.1-20060912.patch

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Do you mind to post a reference to that discussion so it can be verified ? Here's another (though I still don't see the particular one I had in mind) http

mc-4.6.0-pre2

2002-12-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
perhaps you should add a --with-screen=ncursesw, to allow one to build that configuration. Would you like a patch? -- Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mc-4.5.99a

2002-02-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:24:58AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Hi, Thomas! On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote: One of the package porters noted that there were some bugs in mc (in the ncurses configuration) which do not appear in the previous stable version. Besides these fixes, I