MC doesn't rebind F1-F10 keys

[Dmitry]

Hi. I want to rebind F1-F10 keys. I want to make keybinding like in vim. d - will be delete, e - edit, and so on. I change keys in mc.keys but it doesn't work - when I press 'd' or 'e' - it make nothing, and F4, F5 doesn't work too. Can you fix it?

[zaytsev]

I don't think you can bind to "h", since it will be printed in subshell. I am not sure, whether there is a solution for this.

[Dmitry]

What do you mean when you say "h"? I already rebinded some keys like 'j','k','g'. But if I try to rebind functional keys, like F1-F10 it's not working. I'm saying only about functional keys.

[andrew_b]

MC doesn't have command and normal modes. If you wand use 'd' to delete files, how are you going to enter 'd' letter into command line? The same question about e, v, c letters.

[zaytsev]

Show your keymap. I don't understand how you could have successfully re-binded j,k,g.

[Dmitry]

[panel]
PanelMarkFile? = space; insert; ctrl-t
PanelMoveDown? = j; down; ctrl-n
PanelMoveUp? = k; up; ctrl-p
PanelMoveLeft? = h; left
PanelMoveRight? = l; right
PanelPrevPage? = pgup; alt-v
PanelNextPage? = pgdn; ctrl-v
PanelDoEnter? = enter
PanelChdirOtherPanel? = alt-o
PanelChdirToReadlink? = alt-l
PanelViewSimple? = F13
PanelEditNew? = F14
PanelCopyLocal? = F15
PanelRenameLocal? = F16
PanelDeleteLocal? = F18
PanelReverseSelection? = alt-asterisk
PanelSelect? = m; alt-plus
PanelUnselect? = shift-m; alt-minus
PanelCtrlNextPage? = ctrl-pgdn
PanelCtrlPrevPage? = ctrl-pgup
PanelDirectoryHistoryList? = alt-shift-h
PanelDirectoryHistoryNext? = alt-u
PanelDirectoryHistoryPrev? = alt-y
PanelGotoBottomFile? = alt-j
PanelGotoMiddleFile? = alt-r
PanelSyncOtherPanel? = alt-i
PanelGotoTopFile? = alt-g
PanelSetPanelEncoding? = alt-e
PanelMoveHome? = g; alt-lt; home
PanelMoveEnd? = G; alt-gt; end
PanelSelectSortOrder? = s
PanelToggleSortOrderPrev?=
PanelToggleSortOrderNext?=
PanelReverseSort?=
PanelSortOrderByName?=
PanelSortOrderByExt?=
PanelSortOrderBySize?=
PanelSortOrderByMTime=

This is part of .mc/mc.keymap.
j,k,g,G work successfully.

And this part not work.
[main]
CmdHelp? = f1
CmdUserMenu? = f2; m
CmdView? = f3
CmdViewFile? = f13
CmdEdit? = f4; e
CmdCopy? = f5; c
CmdRename? = f6
CmdMkdir? = f7
CmdDelete? = f8
CmdMenu? = f9
CmdQuit? = f10
CmdMenuLastSelected? = f19
CmdQuietQuit? = f20
CmdFind? = alt-question
CmdQuickCd? = alt-c
CmdQuickChdir? = ctrl-backslash
CmdReread? = ctrl-r
CmdSingleDirsize? = ctrl-space
CmdSuspend? = ctrl-z
CmdSwapPanel? = ctrl-u
CmdHistory? = alt-h
CmdToggleListing? = alt-t
CmdToggleShowHidden? = alt-dot
ShowCommandLine? = ctrl-o
CmdCopyCurrentPathname? = alt-a
CmdCopyOtherPathname? = alt-shift-a
CmdFilteredView? = alt-exclamation
CmdSelect? = kpplus
CmdUnselect? = kpminus
CmdReverseSelection? = kpasterisk
ExtMap1 = ctrl-x

[Dmitry]

Replying to andrew_b:

MC doesn't have command and normal modes. If you wand use 'd' to delete files, how are you going to enter 'd' letter into command line? The same question about e, v, c letters.

I don't need command line in MC, I'm using ^Z, and then typing in bash =).
Do you plan to do modes in MC like modes in vim? No?

[andrew_b]

Branch: 2384_rebind_fx_keys (parent: master).
changeset:71be15df60d2357b720738e672d134591d5efbc0

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [62f382b70e897fffa7ff106eca5adcf62e7e3b0e].

[slavazanko]

Cherry-picked to stable:

git log --pretty=oneline b7eb59e...ae61b72