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Yury V. Zaytsev edited this page Mar 25, 2025 · 3 revisions

Symbolic Action for redefine hotkeys

Command Action Default hotkey
No-Command Empty action
Ignore-Key Empty action
BackSpace Deleting the character to the left of the cursor
Delete Deleting the character to the right of the cursor
Enter New line
Page-Up move up by one page
Page-Down move down by one page
Left move left by one character
Right move right by one character
Word-Left move left by one word
Word-Right move right by one word
Up move up by one line
Down move down by one line
Home move to begin of line
End move to end of line
Tab tabulation
Undo Undo operation
Beginning-Of-Text move to begin of text
End-Of-Text move to end of text
Scroll-Up scroll up
Scroll-Down scroll down
Return ???Return???
Begin-Page move to begin of screen
End-Page move to end of screen
Delete-Word-Left Deleting the word to the left of the cursor
Delete-Word-Right Deleting the word to the right of the cursor
Paragraph-Up move up by one paragraph
Paragraph-Down move down by one paragraph
Save save current file
Load open file
New create new file
Save-as save current file with another name
Mark mark of text
Copy copying of marked text
Move moving of marked text
Remove deleting of marked text
Unmark unmark of text
Save-Block save marked text into file
Column-Mark vertical mark of text
Find call of 'search' dialog window
Find-Again continue search
Replace call of 'replace' dialog window
Replace-Again continue replace
Complete-Word autocompletions of words
Insert-File insert text from file
Exit Exit from editor
Toggle-Insert toggle insert/override edit mode
Help call of help window
Date insert current date
Refresh refresh screen
Goto Go to line
Delete-Line delete current line
Delete-To-Line-End delete from cursor position to end of line
Delete-To-Line-Begin delete from cursor position to begin of line
Man-Page
Sort Sorting of marked text
Mail
Cancel cancel action
Complete
Paragraph-Format formatting of paragraphs
Util
Type-Load-Python
Find-File call 'file search' dialog windos
Ctags
Match-Bracket search paired brackets
Terminal
Terminal-App
ExtCmd
User-Menu call of user-defined menu
Save-Desktop
New-Window
Cycle
Menu
Save-And-Quit
Run-Another
Check-Save-And-Quit
Maximize
Begin-Record-Macro
End-Record-Macro
Delete-Macro
Toggle-Bookmark create/remove bookmark
Flush-Bookmarks delete all bookmarks
Next-Bookmark go to next bookmark
Prev-Bookmark go to previous bookmark
Page-Up-Highlight
Page-Down-Highlight
Left-Highlight
Right-Highlight
Word-Left-Highlight
Word-Right-Highlight
Up-Highlight
Down-Highlight
Home-Highlight
End-Highlight
Beginning-Of-Text-Highlight
End-Of-Text_Highlight
Begin-Page-Highlight
End-Page-Highlight
Scroll-Up-Highlight
Scroll-Down-Highlight
Paragraph-Up-Highlight
Paragraph-Down-Highlight
XStore save marked text into /.local/share/mc/mcedit/mcedit.clip file
XCut cut marked text and save into /.local/share/mc/mcedit/mcedit.clip file
XPaste insert text from /.local/share/mc/mcedit/mcedit.clip file
Selection-History
Shell
Select-Codepage
Insert-Literal
Execute-Macro
Begin-or-End-Macro
Ext-mode
Focus-Next
Focus-Prev
Height-Inc
Height-Dec
Make
Error-Next
Error-Prev
Debug-Start
Debug-Stop
Debug-Toggle-Break
Debug-Clear
Debug-Next
Debug-Step
Debug-Back-Trace
Debug-Continue
Debug-Enter-Command
Debug-Until-Curser
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