Chris, Not sure about the other stuff but I think I know what you want for the PWD thing. 'mc' has a '-P', or '--printwd', option that will save mc's current working directory to a file. My 'mc' installed a 'mc-wrapper.sh' script in '/usr/local/libexec/mc' that uses that option and does what I think you're looking for. In the same directory there should be a 'mc.sh' script that you can source to set up an alias for the 'mc' command.
L'chei-im, Lee > Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:45:02 +0300 > From: chris glur <crg...@gmail.com> > To: mc@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Mc Digest, Vol 67, Issue 6 > Message-ID: > <49dfd7e20911080045p1950aac0ma8caadcf97e3e...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >>> My oberon [the good OS] collaborator, friend sent the CD from the other >>> side of the world. So It's home made. > >>OK, if this CD is home-made, then how come this has to do >>with Debian? It might be based on Debian, but this mysterious >>collaborator might have introduced changes, which had some >>subtile side-effects, e.g. like breaking bundled mc package. > > Yes it might depend on the 'ghost in the box' too, but I take a > probibalistic approach: > = I've installed mc on Slak3, RH6.2; Slak?; Mandrake9; FC1, mulinux... > all with no problems. > = I've got both Etch & Lenny CD's from the "mysterious collaborator" > and both indicate an elaborated 'checking for uncorrupted files' procedure > before/during installation. > = The Debian documentation ACTIVELY encourages user duplication of their CDs. > = I found myself uncomfortable with Debian documentation: the subtle, > difficult > to explain feeling of a socialist english school teacher is summarised in the > 'aptitude' user interface. > Compare aptitude, which you'd only use to install/update; with mc which you've > used a million times since DOS/nc, and note that aptitude has screens of > menus. > Like the unduly controlling school-teacher, aptitude-developers take > themselves > too serious, in expecting you to learn the screens of menu instuctions which > has no other value except for THEIR seldom used product. > >> What's the problem with downloading the original Debian CD and trying >> whether it works or not before putting the blame on Debian? > > You don't want/need to know my circumstamces which differ from what > you are familiar with. And I suspect that if I wanted to "get married > to Debian" by investing resources to familiarise myself with their > different way of doing it, all would work. I DO suspect that their emphasis > on security is good for beginners. Personally I always run as root. Life is > just too short. Since the only lasting asset is your knowledge, one should > not get married to a product. mc's secret was that it leaveraged the > universally appicable design principles of Norton's commander. > >>I don't think it makes any sense for us to try to support you to get >>some ancient version of the software that you've got from some broken >>home-made CD (origins unknown) to work. > > Are you the chairman/controller of "us"? > Is this mail-list different from others which are based on collaboration? > If you want to SHOW that you can SUPPORT then tell how would I set my > 'bash mini-mc' so that when it quits, it doesn't pwd back to the dir from > where it ran. Actually I believe mc does this too, and it's a fact of the > kernel. So you need a higher/more-global 'environment' where pwd can be > stored. It seems that gpm uses a very 'Hi' environment, since it even > operates across chroot/s. > > I guess the DebLenny-2009 CD has the newest version of mc that I'll ever use > in my life. In principle, I prefer to wait for a few years untill a product > has prove itself, like mc did. > > == TIA. _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
