On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 20:05, freethread freethread...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, I'm facing an issue with last mc version. After upgrading ports (from
source with portmaster) the syntax highlight in mcedit no more works, well,
it works, but...
Explanation
I made some customization in mc for fileext, syntax highlight and menus, some
of them are documentend, some others are partially documented and some others
are undocumented. The syntax highlight customization is partially documented,
however that's what I've done on my system:
The syntax highlight are composed by files with .syntax extention and a main
'Syntax' file that recognize file type (extentions + content) and redirect to
the right .syntax file.
1.. I created a new directory where I copied that files (located in
/usr/local/share/mc/syntax) in that new directory.
2.. In each home directory there is an '.mc' directory where mc place per
user configuration files, so I found that copying the above files in
$HOME/.mc/cedit directory you can customize the syntax highlight recognition
and coloration, so what I've done (for each user) is to create symlinks to
that files in 'cedit' directory, pointing at files copied in step 1. So, each
user has the same customized syntax highlight.
Now, it worked for years, but when updated mc to version 4.8.1.1, it show me
a syntax error in Syntax file at line 41, that contain the following
customization:
40 file .\*(csh|\\.(csh|cshrc|tcsh|tcshrc|login|logout))$ tcsh/csh\sScript
^#!\s\*/(.\*/|usr/bin/env\s)(tc|c)sh41 include csh.syntaxOk, I restored the
original 'Syntax' file to replace the customized one, but it seems it has no
effect, it display the same error and in the editor menu 'Options - Syntax
Highlight...' it still display my customized additions (in the previous
example 'tcsh/csh Script'), and it uses its own .syntax files in
/usr/local/share/mc/syntax for all file types.
I don't know if mc has a cache and where it is, in /tmp there is nothing to
help. This is not a FreeBSD issue instead something changed in mc syntax
highlight policy, anyhow, perhaps you know or heard about some changes, I use
mcedit for small shell files, small perl and python scripts on FreeBSD server
but the most of the time I works on Windows desktops (and access it with
remote terminals), so I can revert mc to works as default and edit them in
Windows.
The latest mc from ports changed the paths to be more XDG complaint.
Config files live now in ~/.config/mc/ (and, as consequence,
~/.config/mc/mcedit/ if you need mcedit-related ones). State-related
files live in ~/.local/mc/ now.
At the 1st run after update, the mc copies the old configs into
new locations, which explains why your changes to the files inside
~/.mc/ had no effect and why you had a feeling like something cached
somewhere.
Also, at the 1st run (just after copying), mc shows message about new
paths and what happened, and exits. But you can easy to miss it if
your terminal emulator closes the window automatically after mc exit.
FYI: I made many other customizations to mc but I don't know if they
interfere with this issue, all of them have more than 2 years and always
worked and they are the same from at least 1 year, anyway my system was
installed from 'disk 1' in september 2010, fresh FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1
installation (it was an 8.2-RELEASE but I made a fresh install to test
bsdinstall and have SU+J on UFS), upgraded to 9.0-RELEASE in january or
frebuary with freebsd-update (binary), all ports are uptodate.
FreeBSD alpha.xxx.xxx 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #1: Fri Jan 20
07:29:38 CET 2012
r...@alpha.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALPHA i386
Thanks in advance for your advices (if you have any)
paul
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Andrew W. Nosenko andrew.w.nose...@gmail.com
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