Den 03. jan. 2016 16:56, skrev Skippy: > > On 01/02/2016 12:38 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> Den 01. jan. 2016 00:49, skrev Linux: >>> On 12/30/2015 10:32 AM, Roman Dobosz wrote: >>> >>> snip >> Should be as easy as hitting Ctrl-L when your screen is messed up, >> should it not? Don't use MC, so haven't tried it. If it does not work, >> look in manual for key-binding for "redraw" . >> > I didn't know about ctrl-L. Sure enough that works as well. > Thank you. Good work around until I fix it otherwise. > Skippy > >
ctrl-L (C-l for short) is old standard terminal key-binding, sending an actual control-character. Control-characters are like their regular counterparts but with a numeric value 0x40 less. Others that you probably know are C-c (0x03, break) , C-d, C-/ . More obscure are C-s (aka XOFF) to suspend terminal output, and C-q (aka XON) to continue output. All these are control-characters used forever on unix terminals. Also fairly standard C-h (backspace) C-p (previous) C-n (next). C-j is synonym for carriage return aka \r, C-m is line-feed aka \n. Good to know when keyboard mappings get screwed up. In this context C-l is actually sending page-break control-character, which will usually redraw the terminal window, unless the app decides to use it for something else. These control-codes can be seen in an acii table, they are the first ten code-points.
