On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2013-01-28 10:45 (GMT+0100) Egmont Koblinger composed: > > Marco wrote: >> > > when I hit F6 to rename a file the “to:†field is pre-populated with >>> >>> the path of the other panel. That's handy if you want to move files, >>> but annoying if you want to rename the file and the renaming just >>> adds an extension or removes two characters at the beginning of a >>> 50-character file name. If I start typing I have to retype the >>> entire file name. >>> >> > Is there an easier way to rename files, for instance a shortcut to >>> pre-populate the field with the current file name? >>> >> > Shift+F6 should do it. >> > > But it doesn't when running on a tty in runlevel[2,3,5] in every distro I > can recall using. In the tty case it's inexplicably Shift-F4, just like > copy with edit name instead of Shift-F5 is Shift-F3. Why? I know it has > something to do with 10 function keys vs. 12 function keys, but shouldn't > there be a simple solution? Is there? > This seems to be a problem with the console-data or kbd or whichever similar package of Linux distros... They offer multiple keymaps, and define function keys differently in them. E.g. type "loadkeys us" -> with the U.S. keymap pressing Shift+F4 will do what you'd expect from Shift-F6. But type "loadkeys ru" -> with the Russian keymap Shift+F6 works as expected. Seems that the kernel's builtin keymap makes the Shift key offset the function keys by 10 (drivers/tty/vt/defkeymap.map says «keycode 64 = F6 F16» and later «string F16 = "\033[29~"»), and this is what mc expects too (mc.lib: «f16=\\e[29~»). Unfortunately, many keymaps, including the probably most widely used "us" wants to be able to assign separate action to F11 and Shift+F1, so they shift by 12 and define «keycode 64 = F6 F18». There's nothing mc could do about this right now, first all the keymaps should be made consistent. cheers, egmont
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