Re: small request

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Egmont Koblinger wrote:

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?


In my opinion, this is really where mc^2 shines. If and when we'll be able 
to merge it in, it will finally make it possible to get rid of so many 
crap micro-options that we've been dragging along for such a long time...


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Re: small request

[Egmont Koblinger]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:55 AM, solarflow99  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.
>
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Re: small request

[solarflow99]

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.  But
no one will ever complain about having this back because no one complained
until it was lost when mc 4.8 came out :)
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.


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