On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> The shell prompt string itself. >> > ok. maybe it would make sense to implement an own bash-compatible PS1 > interpreter. trying to make sense of almost arbitrary program output > sort of has to fail.
Maybe we can even borrow the code directly from bash (or some other shell) and embed it into MC. >>>> * execution of commands typed at MC's prompt widget trough the >>>> subshell >>>> >>> read my lips: NO WAY IN HELL. ;) >>> this is one of the few actual selling points of mc over all the other >> >> The prompt widget or the fact that if the subshell is enabled commands >> are executed trough the subshell ? Don't get me wrong - I want to keep >> the prompt widget. What I propose is to handle commands typed at it >> just as if the subshell is disabled. I cannot see how commands typed >> at the prompt and executed trough the subshell give MC an advantage >> over the other file managers. >> > the fact that i can switch the panels on and off at any time - without > losing the command's output. Even without the subshell the command output doesn't get lost - just try it. It is taken care of. >> The problem that I was debugging - it was related to this feature. In >> short: [...] >> > yes, i remember that discussion pretty well. it's, indeed, no simple > problem. Well, a fix was checked in which was supposed to fix the issue - that was almost 4 year ago. Some years laters a variation of the same bug hits again... _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
