Re: Changes in the keymap?

Theodore Kilgore <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mc.general
Message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809050933390.1616@pipar3>
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.
>
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>> Hello,
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>> 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?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Hunter
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