In this article, we invite you to try to find a bug in a very simple function from the GNU Midnight Commander project. Why? We actually wanted to show you yet another bug that a human reviewer has a hard time finding and the static code analyzer PVS-Studio can catch without effort.

with the last update to 4.8 midnight commander got a new place for it's config.file: now the configuration is under /.config/mc so check your entries under I had a look into the change log of MC what changed between 4.7.0 and 4.8.0.. but could not find any precise reason.

By default, Ctrl-O in Midnight Commander is used to show the console output. In /etc/mc/mc.keymap I have set ShowCommandLine to another keyboard shortcut, and now Despite this, if I call Vim from the Midnight Commander prompt, and then press Ctrl-O, I end up in the standard two-panel mode of...

midnight commander arrow keys #26. Closed. trapframe opened this issue Apr 7, 2016 · 9 comments. 'apt-get install mc' is succefull running 'mc' show the midnight commander interface but when trying to move using MC's Learn Keys function doesn't help - they work fine there. Copy link.

I have installing Midnight commander from FreeBSD 12.0-current with: pkg install mc. According to this thread, there is a bug/problem with mc, depending also on how it is compiled. The option is to recompile it with SUBSHELL off; or to run it as

Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander by atomlib_com in cpp. The bug in the original source code is that they were using a custom isspace which treats fewer characters as space than the standard.

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No. 1. Elusive standard functions. Here's the bug placed first. This one is an impressively weird bug, which managed to make it through the code review. For more detailed commentary on this bug, see the article "Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander".

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I've just installed the Midnight Commander in FreeBSD 9.0 from package and I've realized with surprise that the Alt key is not working when But mc in an xterm, the Alt key works as expected. Also when in linux it works as expected, same in the console or in X. So, what's the difference between the...

I'm using Midnight Commander in a Mac Terminal. I'm using PC keyboard, so function keys work as F1-F12 keys, but they don't work in MC. I tested what character sequence is sent with each function key and it is the same as on my Linux machine.

A lot of bugs in this years Top 10 were found in computer gaming software: engines or open-source games. As you already guessed, this one came from that For more detailed commentary on this bug, see the article "Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander".

I have never used midnight commander before, I usually just use the command line to move files I cannot find anything else about it when I search for it. I am guessing if you wanted to moves files in I like using midnight commander, but this bug kind of has me worried a bit. MC is easy for my to use...

Default mc with active panels has only one line where the user can type commands, I want to see more console output without pressing ctrl + o pressing. In case it is not clear: this can ONLY work in a VT, NOT in a X terminal like gnome-terminal or Mac's Terminal.app.

Midnight commander is unusable since does not interpret arrow keys correctly. Unfold All Fold All More Options. Edit Title & Description Stickness Lock Thread Move Thread.

Although Midnight Commander is a text mode application it can make use of mouse. Main difference to older versions of Midnight Commander is different menu, so now we need Panel options instead of Configuration. menu: Terminal > Keyboard > The Function keys and keypad: Linux.

I've been using Midnight Commander for many years and in the past I would customize my extensions file "mc.ext" to So I found the video.sh file and made a backup and tried to modify it but none of my modifications seemed to do anything.

Which of these functions does the BIOS perform? Check all that apply. Installs drivers POST Checks what devices are connected to the computer Initializes hardware. What command can you use to create a file using bash? cat ls touch mkfile.

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Ubuntu14.04 $ mc --version GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.11 Built with GLib 2.39.1 Using the mc pops up a dialog, that it cannot make the hardlink, and hangs. bug1: The dialog has no options for user checks the computer 2 hours later, and finds mc hang on the first hardlink, where user has to...

Bug Description. Binary package hint: mc. If you not have a .mc directory in your home (please rename the exist for probe), and you run the "mc". You can't save the setting, and the internal editor "copy selected the tempfile" not work, because these want to save into .mc directory.

I found a bug in the detective quest code, I'm sorry. The boxes with the outfit are disabled by default, and they are enabled when accepting the quest, but if the quest has already been accepted and you enter the game again, the "quest accepted" event don't be called again...

GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994 as a clone of the then-popular Norton Commander.

A lot of bugs in this years Top 10 were found in computer gaming software: engines or open-source games. As you already guessed, this one came from that For more detailed commentary on this bug, see the article "Wanna Play a Detective? Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander".

Find the Bug in a Function from Midnight Commander". Conclusion We have found tons of bugs over this year. Those were common copy-paste mistakes, inaccurate constants, unclosed tags, and lots of other defects.

After capturing a screenshot of when that text first appeared in this glitch and posting it on DA, someone wanted to see actual footage. It took me ages to...

Midnight Commander gives users a handful of special commands for dealing with files or directories in bulk. Text files are opened in a default editor, and users can configure the software to automatically open up other types of files, such as HTML files, in a Web browser.