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3591	Usability/Joy of Use: Switching Panels Via Backslash Key (= Right-Hand Tab-Key on US-keyboards)	telep		"I'm using a keyboard with US-layout, although living in Germany.

I navigate directories entirely by the navigation keys on the right side of my keyboard: Small hand movements are sufficient to find and open files, while having a hand free for other things. Switching panels, however, requires me to press the tab key on the very opposite side of the keyboard – every single time. Instead, the backslash can be thought of as the right-hand tabulator key. 

Backslash triggers the “unselect files” dialog in MC at the moment, which is also available through the hyphen and minus key, so remapping won’t break anything.

AFAIK you can’t modify this key binding via mc.keymap. You have to modify the source code at the moment:

So I made a simple patch for version 4.8.7 some time ago:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37393754/mc-4.8.7-backslash_change_panel.patch

The better way, however, would be a remapping option in the mc.keymap file

Image of the US-Layout: http://i.imgur.com/wTx6kZ8.png"	enhancement	new	major	Future Releases	mc-core	master						no branch