[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#727703: mc: down arrow cursor movement broken in mcedit

[Roy Fullmer]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.10-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   When I run mcedit as root in a console or in an xterm in X,
I can't get the cursor to move past the third line with the
down arrow. If I press the down arrow and Ctrl or the Alt key
together, the cursor moves fine. It also works by just pressing
return. I've downgraded to version 4.7.0.9-1 which does not
have this problem.

   I can't really tell when this started happening, but have
recently installed the dwm window manager which uses Ctrl and
the Alt keys for movement between windows, and the problem
started happening when I started using it together with mcedit.
But I don't usually run X as root ( I just ran it as root to
check if the problem existed ). The problem does not exist when
I use mc as non-root user, but I usually use it as root on the
console.



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

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.42.8-1
ii  libc6         2.17-93
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.36.4-1
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-6.1
ii  libslang2     2.2.4-15
ii  libssh2-1     1.4.3-1
pn  mc-data       <none>

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.54
ii  perl          5.18.1-4
ii  unzip         6.0-10

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                 <none>
ii  bzip2               1.0.6-5
pn  dbview              <none>
ii  djvulibre-bin       3.5.25.4-2
ii  file                1:5.14-2
ii  genisoimage         9:1.1.11-2
pn  gv                  <none>
ii  imagemagick         8:6.7.7.10-6
ii  lynx                2.8.8dev.16-1
ii  mupdf [pdf-viewer]  1.2-2
pn  odt2txt             <none>
ii  poppler-utils       0.18.4-8
ii  python              2.7.5-5
pn  python-boto         <none>
pn  python-tz           <none>
ii  texlive-binaries    2013.20130729.30972-2
ii  w3m                 0.5.3-12
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]   3.03-11
ii  zip                 3.0-8