Re: Privacy option?

[Mooffie]

(Replying to a post in the mailing list archive, so apologies for lack
of threading.)

On May 20, 2016, Toby wrote:
> I usually enable the privacy option on GUI desktop systems / file
> managers, which prevents them from keeping a menu of recently accessed
> files and directories, because I find the feature more troublesome than
> useful.
>
> In plain Bash terminals instead I use a "private window" concept,
> borrowed from web browsers. Whenever I'm about to work on private data I
> type 'unset HISTFILE', after which all following commands typed into that
> window won't be saved in .bash_history

(You can make it so that the Bash spawned under MC does this automatically.)

>
> Is there a similar option for mc? Either a global option to avoid saving
> activity history (such as recently accessed files, directories, and
> commands) or a temporary switch akin to "private window"?
>
> Otherwise, has anybody come up with some hook or script to do that?
>
> I took a look at the files kept by mc and I found the following:
>
> ~/.local/share/mc/history
> ~/.local/share/mc/filepos
> ~/.cache/mc/Tree
>
> The first is the most troublesome file. I only want to keep the
> [user-fmt-input] and [mini_input] sections there (which are really
> configuration history, rather than activity history) and get rid of
> everything else. The second file contains activity history of recently
> edited files and the third contains the directories browsed using Tree
> view, so they need to go as well.
>
> I just cleaned up those three files and gave them root:root 644
> permissions, which seems to be doing the trick: it keeps them read-only
> with no visible error message. But I'm wondering if there's a better
> option out there.

I don't know if it helps, but MC respects the following environment variables:

XDG_CONFIG_HOME
XDG_DATA_HOME
XDG_CACHE_HOME

Google them. You can create a shell script to launch a "private" MC
that puts all these under ~/.private or whatever.

(I see that MC stores the "Directory hotlist" data in CONFIG, not
DATA. This looks wrong.)

(Tip: you can make your "private" MC use a different skin than the regular one.)
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mc^2 news (july 2016)

[Mooffie]

Hi folks!

A new release of mc^2 is out. It's mainly a maintenance release,
so there aren't many exciting new features.

http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/

News:

The C side:

  - The branch is rebased against mc 4.8.17.

The Lua side:

  - A few minor bug fixes.

  - New module: "dynamic skin"

It lets you change the skin automatically depending on
the directory you're in.

So, for example, when you're examining an old backup disk
you've mounted, or when you're on a remote machine, or when
you're browsing a panelized or filtered listing, or when
you're in a read-only directory, you can get a very
noticeable visual indication reminding you of this.

  - New module: "colon"

It lets you type :commands :like :these on the
command-line (or in the editor). Like in 'vi'.
E.g., you can rename files by typing:

:s/\.jpe?g/jpg/i

(This launches Visual Rename, where you can inspect
the changes before committing them.)

  - The snapshots module can now save/restore panelized listings.
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