Re: MP Editor Over SSH (PuTTY)

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:39:57AM -0700, Vinay Agarwal wrote:

> I discovered MP editor last week after repeated searches to find a Linux
> editor that can run "decently" over PuTTY. I have tried using emacs and
> others and found their user interface less than friendly. I like MP but have
> some issues with terminal emulation settings.
> 
> 1. If running in mouse mode, what should be the PuTTY's keyboard
> setting-ESC[n~, Linux, or Xterm R6? It seems to work best with Xterm R6
> setting but even in this setting "Home" and "End" keys don't move cursor,
> they insert some strange characters.
> 
> 2.  Mouse clicks work sometimes but at other times they insert strange
> characters.

I'm afraid I've never used PuTTY, nor have access to any Windows XP
machine. Maybe it's a matter of having a correct TERM variable, and a
correctly configured Termcap/Terminfo.

Do other text applications (as, for example, Midnight Commander), behave
the same? The "Home" and "End" keys are usually problematic on text
applications.

Anyway, you can always remap the move-bol and move-eol actions to other
keybindings you don't use (or don't mind losing), for example, ctrl-left
and ctrl-right (which are mapped by default to move-word-left and
move-word-right). Ctrl + arrows can also fail on many terminals, but they
are always accesible by pressing ESC and then the key (the same as the
function keys, ESC + number).

> My server is CentOS 4.3 and I am using 3.x stable release of MP with client
> being Windows XP. MP is built with ncurses. It is entirely possible that MP
> isn't built correctly. Is there a RPM available for MP (preferably of 4.99.x
> release) with curses? (The link on the homepage for Redhat rpm doesn't
> work.)

MP is probably built correctly (unless more strange things are also
happening). And no, there is currently no RPM package, sorry.

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