On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >>> the second variant would be embedding the real shell prompt into the >>> panels. this could work by presenting the shell a really tiny pty. >>> to >> >> Could you elaborate, please ? Do you mean implementing another view >> for the panels that will display the output of the subshell and will >> pass the user input to the subshell ? In short the same behaviour that >> is currently invoked by pressing Ctrl+O ? >> > yup. > >> Shall we keep the prompt in this case ? >> > i think it would be logical.
But then we shall face the same problems. I mean it is not different from what we do now. The only difference is that the output will go to the panel directly and no Ctrl+O would be necessary. >> The current code would work well if: [...] >> > then it would be trivial. the fun would be gone then. :))) Darn! :) >> Reading /proc (if mounted) seems appropriate since it is available on >> most of the popular platforms. >> > in principle yes, but every system has it's own /proc format, which some > of are binary. It's more like reading a symlink. At least the current directory is implemented like symlink on the systems I've seen. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
