[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#725691: mc: erratic behaviour of mcedit as subprocess of mc

[Karsten Hilbert]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.10-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

With the latest update mcedit started to behave quite erratically:

When mcedit is invoked by typing

	mcedit SOMEFILE

from the mc commandline rather then pressing F4 on
the file the editor will behave quite strange:

- at first no file content is shown
- upon pressing the first key the file content shows up
- all keys react very delayed or not at all
- the key delay is not predictable it differs
  from keystroke to keystroke
- which keys don't react at all is not predictable either,
  the affected keys change, even within one and the
  same mcedit session

The following has happened under the same circumstances
but already for a longer time (it worked before):

- ctrl/shift+INS copy/paste doesn't work
- cursor key based text selection doesn't work

Now, the answer might be: don't invoke mcedit manually under mc.
However, mcedit is configured to be my default editor (say,
sensible-editor and such) and thusly is invoked by many tools
(like git for editing commit messages).

Invoking mcedit from the shell makes it behave just fine.

Karsten

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.10-4

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.54
ii  perl          5.18.1-4
ii  unzip         6.0-9

Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]  9.5.5-dmo1
ii  arj                    3.10.22-11
ii  bzip2                  1.0.6-5
ii  catdvi                 0.14-12.1
ii  dbview                 1.0.4-1
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  odt2txt                0.4+git20100620-1+b1
ii  okular [pdf-viewer]    4:4.10.5-1
ii  poppler-utils          0.18.4-8
ii  python                 2.7.5-5
pn  python-boto            <none>
ii  python-tz              2012c-1
ii  texlive-binaries       2013.20130729.30972-2
ii  w3m                    0.5.3-11
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]      3.03-11
ii  zip                    3.0-7

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