On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:54:11 +0200 (CEST), Piotr Roszatycki wrote: >No no, it isn't mc script but only function in your ~/.bash_profile or >global /etc/profile. > >I'm afraid many people have some kind of function or aliases related >to _real_ mc binary and current mc wrapper can broke it. > >BTW, >/usr/bin/mcedit is a symlink to /etc/bin/mc which is an only wrapper. >This is the reason that mcedit doesn't work already.
Quite. And this has nothing to do with how much resources a bash takes up. When the bash exits, control is returned to the original directory; no matter what the bash script did. And, the idea of editing /etc/profile or whatever is to my mind really bad. The upstream source for mc has sample scripts which users can call from their own .bash_profile, .profile, etc, both for Bourne and C shells. They should be made available (they are also listed on the man page for mc) ps: the reason for not doing cd `mc -P "$@"` is given in the man page. Something to do with control-Z to suspend doesn't work unless you use the temporary file method. On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:54:11 +0200 (CEST), Piotr Roszatycki wrote: >On 16 Sep 1999, Philip Hands wrote: > >> Wait a second. >> >> So this mc script is an attempt to leave you in the directory you were >> in when you left mc ? >> >> Well that won't work will it? >> >> Try running this: >> >> cd /tmp; ( cd /etc; pwd ); pwd > >No no, it isn't mc script but only function in your ~/.bash_profile or >global /etc/profile. > >I'm afraid many people have some kind of function or aliases related >to _real_ mc binary and current mc wrapper can broke it. > >BTW, >/usr/bin/mcedit is a symlink to /etc/bin/mc which is an only wrapper. >This is the reason that mcedit doesn't work already. > >-- > >Piotr "Dexter" Roszatycki >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >