Bug 143265

Summary:	mc beheviour is somewhat dumb
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Olli Artemjev <grey-olli>
Component:	ConsoleApps	Assignee:	Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	grey-olli
Version:	Final	Keywords:	Code_Error, Usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Olli Artemjev 2006-01-14 15:22:41 UTC

I've seen that on many distributions w/ mc beheviour like this from the box. Recompiling mc from source always fixed the problem. =) I don't know how what I change on recompiling mc to fix this. Though the following annoyance disappear then. Lets talk how to reproduce (keywords are named as from x86 keyboard):

Either in console or X terminal start mc , press F9 and customize directory listing mode for both panels as 'long file list' . Now after you have each pannels fit on the entire entrminal, on the directory listing press <insert><tab><tab><insert> . On my system I see another panel instead of panel I was marking files on. Same for <down><tab><tab><down> and generally the last key may be any cursor movement key.

That is quite annoying - I've to recompile mc to use long listing. That's why I put it as major bug. Also I add 'recompile mc' to my todo list. =))

PS: tryed to check configuration but didn't find anything that could relate to that.

Comment 1 Vladimir Nadvornik 2006-01-24 15:28:39 UTC

Which version did you recompile and how?
For me, this bug appears with all versions since 4.6.1pre3, even with the
binary rpms from upstream (mc-2006012023-1.i386.rpm).

Comment 2 Olli Artemjev 2006-01-29 05:37:14 UTC

oops.. really. Sorry for providing wrong info. :( The bug seem to be not in compilation, but in the code. Tryed to recompile in diffrent ways current snupshort tonight.. no success. Sorry, again. :((

Comment 3 Vladimir Nadvornik 2006-01-30 17:01:55 UTC

OK, this should be fixed upstream. I reported the bug in mc bugzilla.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=15576

Comment 4 Olli Artemjev 2006-02-14 20:45:57 UTC

Well, more info for that - the gentoo mc beheviour is free from that bug. Seems either gentoo has it's own patchset either the matter is somwhere outside mc.
Look:
==================================================================
----------------- [ 23:39:10, root@feedback, ~  ]
# mc --version
GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.0
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, undelfs
With builtin Editor
Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
----------------- [ 23:39:14, root@feedback, ~  ]
# cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
----------------- [ 23:39:18, root@feedback, ~  ]
#
==================================================================

Comment 5 Olli Artemjev 2006-02-14 20:55:43 UTC

Well, 1st commited info & only then had a look at mc bugzilla page link provided, sorry. %) Seems them 've a patch ready. :) Cool. :)
Should I wait for an mc rpm update or just better to recompile from src rpm w/ that patch? ?-) The second is preferrable for me if you'll wait till them test
that & put into cvs. Your comment?

Comment 6 Vladimir Nadvornik 2006-02-15 09:23:27 UTC

I've added the patch for SUSE LINUX 10.1. It is not serious enough for a 10.0 update.