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has caused the Debian Bug report #468680,
regarding strange ALT-o behaviour over files
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Package: mc
Version: 1:4.6.2~pre1-3
Severity: normal
ALT-O (ESC-O) used to switch the opposite pane to the directory of the
current pane. This no longer works, it switches to one level below the
directory of the current pane.
Sounds like a string variety of an off-by-one bug.
Karsten
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-25 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libslang2 2.1.3-2 The S-Lang programming library - r
mc recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Hi!
I don't know in which version the behavior from Alt+o that you are
expecting used to be. The oldest running mc I have is from 2006 (which
is if I am not mistaken exactly 5 years ago).
[...@calculon ~]$ rpm -q mc
mc-4.6.1a-35.el5
Alt+o behaves just as it does behave now which is if you are on the
folder, then it will change to this folder on the opposite pane,
otherwise it will change it to the folder right above the one you are
in.
The behavior you are talking about, however, is exhibited by Alt+i which
changes the opposite pane to the currently open folder.
Moreover this behavior is documented upstream and I don't think it's up
to the distributions to introduce patches that change upstream behavior
arbitrary without polling how many users of this particular distribution
are actually happy with this.
(take for instance the sensible-editor patch that has been included to
follow Debian policy and which I, for instance, find über-annoying and
stupid; it has been recently removed by Ubuntu by popular demand)
Finally, now in the new version, the key mappings are configurable by
the user. Just create your own keymap file and swap Alt+i with Alt+o.
Therefore I don't think there's anything to fix here and close this bug.
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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
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