You started with
"huh? slang/ncurses runs the tty in raw mode..."
Now you are clarifying
> ...that this is utterly irrelevant.
With your bogus explanation you proceeded to counter an alleged bogus
explanation. In the process, you revealed yourself as the only person
on the planet that calls tty a graphic terminal window.
> ...keys are not "intercepted" or "handled" by the terminal at all
It depends: this applies to xterm, it does not apply e.g. to Gnome
Terminal.
> ...if mc didn't have the meaning of those codes hard-wired somewhere
Prove it with the corresponding MC source.
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