From bcb9e25d974148b2020b3c4be68ed6e593a6ad01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Borodin Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:50:59 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] doc/FAQ: updates and fixups. Signed-off-by: Andrew Borodin --- doc/FAQ | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/FAQ b/doc/FAQ index ae456f986d..4b7b23ed0e 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ +++ b/doc/FAQ @@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ Frequently Asked Questions You need a POSIX (Unix compatible) operating system. If you are running Windows, use Cygwin. - To compile any edition you need to have glib 2.x installed. - It's available at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/. + To compile any edition you need to have glib >= 2.30 installed. + It's available at https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/. If you want to use mouse on the Linux console you need the gpm daemon - from ftp://ftp.systemy.it/pub/develop/. You need nothing extra to - use mouse on xterm. + from https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/. You need nothing + extra to use mouse on xterm. If you do not want to use the S-Lang library you could try using ncurses version 4.1 and above. @@ -294,10 +294,11 @@ f2 Keyboard 2.8 How do I change the key bindings? - There is no generic way to reconfigure the key bindings. You can use - the "Learn Keys" dialog to assign keys to some actions listed in that - dialog. However, most actions cannot be redefined to use different - keys. + Key binding con be reconfigure via keymap files: /etc/mc/mc.keymap + and ~/.config/mc/mc.keymap. + + You can use the "Learn Keys" dialog to assign keys to some actions + listed in that dialog. 3 Mouse @@ -314,11 +315,6 @@ f2 Keyboard Hold down shift key while using mouse to cut and paste. -3.3 How do I get the extension dependent pop-up menu to pop up? - - It was developed for the GNOME edition. The text-mode edition - doesn't support this feature yet. - 4 Display @@ -340,9 +336,8 @@ f2 Keyboard 4.2 Why don't line drawing characters work? Since version 4.0.13 there's the command line option -a to force use - of charaters +, |, - for line drawing (only available when compiled - with S-Lang). Use the -a option if any of the suggestions below - doesn't help. + of charaters +, |, - for line drawing. Use the -a option if any + of the suggestions below doesn't help. In general, there are three cases: * Lines are shown as ASCII characters like this @@ -421,8 +416,6 @@ f2 Keyboard 4.4 I have problems with entering/viewing national characters! - Upgrade to version 4.0.12 or newer. - From the Options - Display Bits dialog select Full 8 bits or ISO 8859-1. In addition, select 8 bit input from the same dialog. @@ -514,7 +507,7 @@ f2 Keyboard Thomas Dickey maintains his more advanced version of xterm at ftp://dickey.his.com/xterm/ - rxvt has its own site http://www.rxvt.org/ - get the latest version + rxvt has its own site http://www.rxvt.net/ - get the latest version there. 4.8 I got colors working with MC but the other programs don't work at @@ -613,6 +606,36 @@ MC? Only few terminals support screen saving. It's xterm, rxvt and other xterm-like terminals and virtual terminals on Linux and FreeBSD. +6.8 Why I see lot of strange 'cd "printf ' lines into my .history file? + + Add + + export HISTCONTROL="ignoreboth" + + into your ~/.profile file (.bash_profile) for avoid this. + +6.9 I have a problem with Screen which makes using Midnight Commander +problematic. I use Ctrl-O to disable panels. Output of previous commands, +just a clear, screen is blanked. + + Update GNU Screen to the last version. This bug was fixed in + + commit ad56f746c6243d45124485d198d577bdbb78071c + Author: Sadrul Habib Chowdhury + Date: Sun Nov 29 23:34:25 2009 -0500 + + Fix using alternate screen buffers in some cases. + + Screen would reset the 'main' screen buffer if an app tries to + switch to an alternate buffer while it is already using one (in + other words, sends multiple 'smcup' without an 'rmcup'). This should + fix debian #558724 + + (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558724) + + or do not rewrite TERM (mustbe TERM=screen) andrun mc as follow: + + echo -e '\e[?1000h' && mc -x 7 Virtual file systems @@ -622,7 +645,7 @@ MC? press enter. If you use mouse just double-click on the tar file. The recognized suffixes for tar archives are .tar, .tar.gz and .tgz. - You can also enter a tar archive by typing "cd filename#utar" where + You can also enter a tar archive by typing "cd filename/utar://" where filename is the name of the archive. In this case, the suffix is not important. @@ -773,7 +796,7 @@ indenting increases with each line! http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/McDevelopers This page lists everbody who has provided a patch or - has written code for the midnight-commander in the past: + has written code for the Midnight Commander in the past: http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/McContributors 10.2 Do I dare to use a development version? @@ -793,7 +816,7 @@ indenting increases with each line! You might first want to get the newest development version to see if the bug is fixed or the feature is added already. - If this is not the case, feel free to add a ticket in our ticket-system, + If this is not the case, feel free to add a ticket in our ticket system, which is located here: http://www.midnight-commander.org/newticket If you want to send an email instead write your report to mc-devel@gnome.org