[Solved] Midnight Commander, no lynx-like motion available

I just installed Arch on a laptop yesterday and it went quite well considering this is my first brush with this distribution.
I found the Midnight Commander package included in Arch to be lacking a feature I really use, and that is the setting for "lynx-like" motion which allows using the left and right arrow keys to navigate into and out of directories. Considering that the version of the mc package is rather recent, this is a bit surprising as this feature has been available for many years. Is this just a quirk of how the Arch maintainer built the package or is it something else? I find mc much less user friendly without this feature.
Thanks!
Last edited by Nate_KS (2011-01-04 21:20:57)

Indeed it is in the panel options menu. I thought I looked there.
Thanks much!

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Thanks to your pointing at xdg, I understand what's happening. Poor Firefox or xdg associations are actually innocent, what happens is that after I close this particular book (which I just started to read before the problem happened) in Calibre, the mimetype changes, from application/epub+zip to application/zip (Calibre saves the file on exit, because it puts a bookmark at the current location.)
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[Solved] Midnight Commander, no lynx-like motion available

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