Description of problem: After doing the most recent "yum update" on my Fedora 12, I received a new version of Midnight Commander. Within the MC text editor, the Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn keys no longer work. Previously, the keys would move the cursor to the top or bottom, respectively, of the file being edited. In this version these key combinations no longer work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mc-4.7.0-0.6.pre4.20091221git.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: always in this version Steps to Reproduce: 1. update to mc-4.7.0-0.6.pre4.20091221git.fc12.x86_64 2. press F4 to edit a large text file ( 50+ lines ) 3. press Ctrl-PgDn Actual results: nothing happens Expected results: cursor should move to the last character in the file Additional info:
The Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End key bindings appear broken as well in this version.
Yes, upstream likely decided to remap these keys to Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End for jumping to the beginning and end of the file. Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn for cursor movement to the top and bottom of the screen. I have no further references so maybe it is good idea to ask upstream directly.
Slava, do you have any idea what happenned?
> Slava, do you have any idea what happenned? Yep, have idea. In /etc/mc/mc.keymap file change next parameters: -EditBeginningOfText = ctrl-home; alt-lt -EditEndOfText = ctrl-end; alt-gt +EditBeginningOfText = ctrl-pgup; alt-lt +EditEndOfText = ctrl-pgdn; alt-gt EditScrollUp = ctrl-up EditScrollDown = ctrl-down -EditBeginPage = ctrl-pgup -EditEndPage = ctrl-pgdn +EditBeginPage = ctrl-home +EditEndPage = ctrl-end Why it happens... hm... IMHO action 'go to EndOfFile' by pressing 'CTRL+END' have more sence (rather than pressing 'CTRL+PGDN'). But now anyone feel free to change default hotkeys... and anyone feel free to create new ticket with attached mc.keymap.<name> file. Maintainers of distros may change defaults (keymap, skin) too (for distro-specific features ;) ).
Thanks for explanation and workaround :)
Thanks for the feedback but I think my initial description of the problem may not have been clear, let me try again. In this new version of MC, NEITHER ctrl-home NOR ctrl-pgup will take me to the top of the file. Likewise, NEITHER ctrl-end NOR ctrl-pgdn will take me to the bottom of the file. I've examined my mc.keymap file and it contains this: EditBeginningOfText = ctrl-home; alt-lt EditEndofText = ctrl-end; alt-gt There is also another file called mc.keymap.default that is identical. Both files are dated Dec 22. I have never edited this file manually, so I presume these are the defaults. But with this new version of MC, hitting ctrl-home DOES NOT move my cursor to the beginning of the file and hitting ctrl-end DOES NOT move my cursor to the end of the file. Hopefully that's clearer. I don't really care what key combo works, just so there are combos that I can use to quickly get to the top or bottom of a file.
Does this mc help? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1894649
No, that version exhibits the same problem. I have another box still running Fedora 11 and this version of mc: mc-4.6.2-10.fc11.i586 Here's how the editor behaves on that box: ctrl-pgdn = go to bottom of file being edited ctrl-pgup = go to top of file being edited ctrl-home = go to first character of current line ctrl-end = go to last character of current line On F12 with the new mc-4.7.0-0.6.pre4.20091221git.fc12.x86_64 (the current version) and mc-4.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 (the one you reference above) I'm seeing this behavior: ctrl-pgdn = go to last line of terminal window (not bottom of file) ctrl-pgup = go to first line of terminal window (not top of file) ctrl-home = go to first character of current line ctrl-end = go to last character of current line ctrl-home and ctrl-end do appear to actually work as they did in the F11 version. The problem seems limited to ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn. So it looks to me like ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn are now effectively duplicates of pgup and pgdn (in one case moving the cursor one page while holding the line count the same and in the other shifting the line count by one page while holding the cursor in the same place). But the change still removes (as far as I can tell) the key combinations that will take me instantly to the top or bottom of the file being edited as ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn used to. This is functionality that most editors have an MC has had for as long as I have used it. I'd hate to see MC lose this! Has the ctrl-pgup / ctrl-pgdn functionality been moved to some other key combination that I'm missing?
Has anyone figured out a work around that will bring back the ctrl-pgup / ctrl-pgdn functionality? As far as I can tell, none of the new mc.keymap options even allow for a key combo to move the the cursor to the top or bottom of the file. The removal of this function is making me crazy. Trying to get to the top or bottom of a multi-thousand line file used to take a fraction of a second - now I have to hold down the arrow or pgdn keys for as much as a minute to get there. :( I think it should be relatively easy to fix this bug because the underlying code for doing a top of file or bottom of file move is still there. You can trigger it by manually going through a sequence of menu selections: 1. F9 to bring up the menu 2. E to open the Edit menu 3. Select: B for beginning of file E for end of file Interestingly, the menu shows the key combos at ctrl-home for beginning of file and ctrl-end for bottom of file. As noted above though, these key combos were repurposed some time ago to move the cursor to the beginning or end of the line. Ctrl-pgup / ctrl-pgdn took over moving to the top or bottom of the file. It appears ctrl-pgup / ctrl-pgdn have now been repurposed to duplicate pgup and pgdn and no new key combos were created to replace the old top/bottom of file functionality. But the fact that the menu still performs the appropriate action demonstrates that the underlying code is still present in the editor. So we just need to fix the ctrl-pgup / ctrl-pgdn key combos to work again or find a way to add new key combos for the function.
Yum update installed a new version of mc today: mc-4.7.0.1-1.fc12.x86_64 This bug is still present in the new version. All previously working keyboard shortcuts for reaching top of file and bottom of file are still broken.
Found the problem. Here's what caused it: 1. GNOME terminal outputs escape sequences that MC doesn't understand for ctrl-home and ctrl-end. $TERM reports xterm but GNOME terminal apparently doesn't output the same escape sequences as xterm for these key combos. 2. MC switched the key bindings so top of file uses ctrl-home and bottom of file uses ctrl-end 3. Because of the GNOME terminal / MC miscommunication, functions using the bad key combos stopped working. So I think this bug should be changed to either a GNOME terminal bug or, if GNOME terminal key sequences can't be fixed, then maybe an fedora packaging bug so at least MC will continue to work as delivered without the user needing to remap the key sequences first.
Good catch. I'm using xterm so I haven't noticed anything wrong and everything worked for me as expected. Agreed that it is a gnome-terminal bug. Reassigning.
Great! Is there a web page or mailing list related to GNOME terminal development? I'm having trouble finding anything.
Hmmm... I've had no luck finding any sort of development mailing list or website for GNOME terminal. Is it even actively developed or maintained any more? Is there anyone at Redhat who maintains the packaging of GNOME terminal for Fedora? I'm really baffled as to how to follow up on this bug to get it fixed. I use MC heavily in my daily work and this bug makes it virtually unusable for editing large files. The root cause of the bug seems to be the faulty esc sequences emitted by GNOME terminal but I'm not sure how to get that fixed. Even if I could code up a patch myself, I don't see any place to submit it. Any clues?
I run gnome-terminal and see into "help"->"about" menu item: Guilherme de S. Pastore gpastore (maintainer) Havoc Pennington hp Mariano Suárez-Alvarez mariano I think, gnome-terminal don't have dedicated maillist, need to use http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure Also, I found same component into Gnome bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=gnome-terminal&content= I hope, this info will help to you...
Feel free to file a bug upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org, product vte. That's where the development for the emulation side of gnome-terminal happens.
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This bug still exists in Fedora 14. As provided, the editor in the mc package in F14 has no way of reaching top of file or end of file by any key combination. Neither Ctrl-PgUp nor Ctrl-Home takes you to top of file. Neither Ctrl-PgDn nor Ctrl-End takes you to end of file. I assume this means the underlying problem in the GNOME terminal key bindings still has not been fixed and the key binding changes in MC have not been reverted to use the key combos they used prior to F12 which worked fine.
This bug still exists in Fedora 16. As provided, the editor in the mc package in F16 has no way of reaching top of file or end of file by any key combination. Neither Ctrl-PgUp nor Ctrl-Home takes you to top of file. Neither Ctrl-PgDn nor Ctrl-End takes you to end of file. I don't care if it's the fault of MC or GNOME terminal but one of the two needs to be fixed so they play nice together again.
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This bug still exists in Fedora 17.
In Rawhide (to become Fedora 21), gnome-terminal was modified to emit the correct escape sequences. (Caveat: Ctrl+PgUp/Dn are bound to Prev/Next Terminal by default, you need to modify these shortcuts in Edit->Preferences first). mcedit's default binding is to move the cursor to the top/bottom of the current viewport, can be tailored in mc.keymap to anyone's favorites.