[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#563757: mc: emacs key bindings silently removed from internal editor

[Paul Seelig]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.7.0-1
Severity: important

After upgrading mc from version 4.7.0-pre1-3 to the currrent 4.7.0-1 there
is no more the old mcedit which was able to handle emacs key bindings. This
was an unexpected and completely undocumented change, which severely harms
years of trained muscle memory for mc users. This is absolutely annoying!

Comparing the ./edit sub directory of both versions source tree shows that
all emacs was obviously completely removed. This crime has obviously been
commited by the upstream authors. This is not the good old mcedit anymore!
Please revert this in a future release!

I have now put mc-4.7.0-pre1-3 on hold, and will stick to it until this issue
has been dealt with.

Thanks a lot in advance!
P. *8^)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-3   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-3.2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.2.2-2    The S-Lang programming library - r

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.48-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]    9.2-0.1         Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii  arj                      3.10.22-8       archiver for .arj files
ii  bzip2                    1.0.5-3         high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  catdvi                   0.14-11         DVI to plain text translator
ii  dbview                   1.0.4-1         View dBase III files
ii  djvulibre-bin            3.5.22-7        Utilities for the DjVu image forma
ii  epdfview [pdf-viewer]    0.1.7-2         Lightweight pdf viewer based on po
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]      2.28.2-1        Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  file                     5.03-5          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]          1:3.6.8-1       PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  imagemagick              7:6.5.8.3-1     image manipulation programs
ii  links                    2.2-1+b1        Web browser running in text mode
ii  odt2txt                  0.4-1           simple converter from OpenDocument
ii  perl                     5.10.1-8        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python                   2.5.4-5         An interactive high-level object-o
pn  python-boto              <none>          (no description available)
pn  python-tz                <none>          (no description available)
ii  unzip                    6.0-1           De-archiver for .zip files
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.4+lenny1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zip                      3.0-1           Archiver for .zip files

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