mc, xterm-clear, Ctrl-O and Home/End dilemma

[Marek Zarychta]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:20:35PM +0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So, there's a puzzle of minor issues and I wanted to ask how you guys 
> deal with it.
> 
> - with standard ncurses misc/mc there's no borders in mc in putty, and 
> Ctrl-O flushes the output beneath panels.
> 
> -with slang misc/mc Ctrl-O flushes the output beneath panels (and I 
> lived with this through years, but then discovered xterm-clear).
> 
> - with slang and xterm-clear Home/End doesn't work in putty. everything 
> else is fine, but this hurts.
> 
> I use my FreeBSD desktop at work and from home wvia putty, so I really 
> want to solve this without learning keays each time (and it seems like 
> they aren't save on "Save setup".
> 
> Ideas ?
> 
> 

Maybe switching to the x-window driven desktop environment at home should be taken into consideration in this case. 

Both ncures and slang versions of misc/mc work fine (key bindings, border drawing etc.) for ssh(1) client called from xterm capable terminal.

-- 
Marek Zarychta
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