Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of doc/faq

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09/01/11 11:02:32 (13 years ago)

Author:

angel_il

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doc/faq

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 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 last version. This bug was fixed into
+
+{{{
+commit ad56f746c6243d45124485d198d577bdbb78071c
+Author: Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <sadrul@users.sourceforge.net>
+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 debian bug #558724]
+
+or you can edit file '''win.c''' from midnight commander source tree, function do_enter_ca_mode. Remove line {{{fprintf (stdout, /* ESC_STR ")0" */ ESC_STR "7" ESC_STR "[?47h" ESC_STR "?1000h");}}}
+and compile mc.
+
 == 7 Virtual file systems ==