Re: MidNight Commander anyone?

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>]

Andreas Helke (AH@sirius.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de) said:

> One of the many functions of mc seems to be to learn the key codes 
> deliverd by a broken terminal emulation. Therefore it should not be 
> too difficult to get the function keys working. My experience is 
> that mc's function keys work on the console and in an Xterm and tend 
> not to work with a vtxxx emulation.

vt100 terminals only support function keys from pf1 to pf4.  Some
vt100 terminal emulators send the escape sequences for the remaining
function keys as the escape sequences on the vt200.  You may use the
Learn keys feature to let the Midnight Commander know about your
terminal software.

Miguel