Pavel Shirshov (pchel) wrote:
I know. I meant it should be closer to a "true" command line (note quotedbl).Hello buc,
Monday, March 21, 2005, 7:44:46 PM, you wrote:
b> Intuitively, the MC can be perceived as a screen extension to shell
b> (which became possible due to ncurses/slang lib and Ctr/Fn/Alt/Meta
b> keyboard features). Therefore, MC`s cmdline should be closer to a shell
b> command line, rather than a screen application input field.
b> Currently, we have only one printable character -- Tab -- which b> behaves unser MC and a shell differently (and it is reasonable). But
b> don`t add space to this list!
b> There are a lot of keyboard buttons, modifier keys etc. to do things
b> easy -- let MC cmdline be a "true command line".
MC cmdline isn't a "true command line".
Please. Read man mc.
Macro Substitution When accessing a user menu, or executing an extension dependent com- mand, or running a command from the command line input, a simple macro substitution takes place.
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and so on.
Of couse, bash has no "%d"-like macro substitution and other features
(as an old bourne shell has no "$((...))" etc. ;-))
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