On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:55 AM, solarflow99 <solarflo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps having something like "save directory paths", "other-dir" or > similar as Paul mentioned could be added with the default to just be ON. > This could always be overridden by unchecking it and saving settings. > This is complicated. Not especially to implement, but to present on the UI in a manner that's obvious to users. So, you'd move one single option to the realm of another config. How about also boundling current_is_left with this option? Why, or why not? How about all the other options? What if someone else wants a different option to be saved upon exit? Will we introduce another meta-option for them? Where would the new option "save directory paths" belong? Would this option itself be saved according to the already existing "auto-save setup" or according to itself? But no one will ever complain about having this back because no one > complained until it was lost when mc 4.8 came out :) > (Assuming it was indeed changed with 4.8) no one except you complained about it for the last 4.5 years, which is also a good way to measure the importance of such an option. While I understand your request and the rationale behind it, I'm really uncertain that mc should move in this direction. How about, for the time being, you enable auto-save and create a simple wrapper script for yourself that replaces your mc configs (restores everything except for other_dir) before starting up mc? I'm also thinking that _if_ we're indeed concerned that this and only this particular option deserves a special treatment, I'm wondering whether other_dir is better to be remembered globally or per-terminal. Maybe the latter, in which case we might go towards "mc -P" printing it in a certain format, and mc.sh storing it in an environment variable (somewhat similar concept to how the current directory is handled now)... cheers, egmont > Would this really be too hard? > > We're talking about default fresh install settings. I don't like mc saving > settings unless I tell it, also. But to make things easy for new users, > what should the default setting be? > > I vote for auto-save. It makes mc "seem" smart. > > > -- > Peace and Cheer > _______________________________________________ > mc-devel mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel > > _______________________________________________ > mc-devel mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel > >
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