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has caused the Debian Bug report #563757,
regarding mc: emacs key bindings silently removed from internal editor
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: mc
Version: 3:4.7.0-1
Severity: important
After upgrading mc from version 4.7.0-pre1-3 to the currrent 4.7.0-1 there
is no more the old mcedit which was able to handle emacs key bindings. This
was an unexpected and completely undocumented change, which severely harms
years of trained muscle memory for mc users. This is absolutely annoying!
Comparing the ./edit sub directory of both versions source tree shows that
all emacs was obviously completely removed. This crime has obviously been
commited by the upstream authors. This is not the good old mcedit anymore!
Please revert this in a future release!
I have now put mc-4.7.0-pre1-3 on hold, and will stick to it until this issue
has been dealt with.
Thanks a lot in advance!
P. *8^)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libslang2 2.2.2-2 The S-Lang programming library - r
Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii mime-support 3.48-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii acroread [pdf-viewer] 9.2-0.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii arj 3.10.22-8 archiver for .arj files
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii catdvi 0.14-11 DVI to plain text translator
ii dbview 1.0.4-1 View dBase III files
ii djvulibre-bin 3.5.22-7 Utilities for the DjVu image forma
ii epdfview [pdf-viewer] 0.1.7-2 Lightweight pdf viewer based on po
ii evince [pdf-viewer] 2.28.2-1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii file 5.03-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gv [pdf-viewer] 1:3.6.8-1 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii imagemagick 7:6.5.8.3-1 image manipulation programs
ii links 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in text mode
ii odt2txt 0.4-1 simple converter from OpenDocument
ii perl 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii python 2.5.4-5 An interactive high-level object-o
pn python-boto <none> (no description available)
pn python-tz <none> (no description available)
ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files
ii xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.4+lenny1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zip 3.0-1 Archiver for .zip files
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Hi!
The keybindings were not removed, but standardized all over the program.
Emacs keybindings have thus been moved to a separate keymap file. If you
want to use old Emacs keybindings follow the instruction from upstream
(Ilia Maslakov):
1) Quit mc
2) Open ~/.mc/ini in any editor (not mcedit!)
3) Find keymap=
4) Change keymap=mc.keymap to keymap=mc.keymap.emacs
5) Save the file
6) Start mc
7) Enjoy
In future, a dialog for choosing keybinding presets might be considered
to be implemented.
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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
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