[rant] mc in Ubuntu, unusable!

2009-10-26 Thread /dev/rob0
I've been a happy mc user in Slackware since ~1999. I do all my editing using mcedit. This year I got a netbook, and while Slackware would certainly be an option, the idea of having many of the details already handled for me was appealing. So when I got fed up with the Asus Xandros, I tried Ubuntu

Re: [rant] mc in Ubuntu, unusable!

2009-10-26 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 07:40 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: I know my Escape-X trick to get to my menus, so the keybindings are not a showstopper. Esc-9, Configuration (they turned off the internal edit, for goodness' sake, WHY??) It's Debian guys. Go bear with them. /me is off to search the

Re: [rant] mc in Ubuntu, unusable!

2009-10-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Hi, I know my Escape-X trick to get to my menus, so the keybindings are not a showstopper. Esc-9, Configuration (they turned off the internal edit, for goodness' sake, WHY??) Auto save setup is checked. Esc-9, Layout, I drop off all the stuff I don't want to

Re: [rant] mc in Ubuntu, unusable!

2009-10-26 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:34 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: I wish some distro maintainers would work more closely to upstream. Perhaps we should encourage them to have their own branches in our git repo. Why not giving every distro an own branch prefix ? (doesnt necessarily mean giving

Re: [rant] mc in Ubuntu, unusable!

2009-10-26 Thread /dev/rob0
On Monday 26 October 2009 12:35:30 Enrico Weigelt wrote: hmm, do you have a pointer to their patches ? No. I found my workaround, which is enough to keep me happy for now. When Yury has a Karmic package (no hurry, wait until the release, see if I care :) ) I'll try that one. Thanks for your