Re: multiple configs

2009-11-29 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: To: /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk From: Yury V. Zaytsev y...@shurup.com Subject: Re: multiple configs On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 13:42 -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:08:53PM -0500, MK wrote: Is it possible to start mc with an alternate

Re: multiple configs

2009-11-29 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 19:46 -0500, MK wrote: I just have this feeling I would do a little less ctrl-t if they were, for example, different colors. I might be wrong, but it's worth a try. Also different listing modes might be useful. The only justification I would be convinced with is e.g.

Re: multiple configs, and --program-prefix

2009-11-29 Thread MK
My problem w/ rob0's method is that, as Yuri points out, the subshell now thinks ~ is something it is not, which for starters means copying or symlinking .bashrc, etc. I could not find a configure option for this, so in the src/ directory of the tarball I tried this: perl -pi

Re: multiple configs, and --program-prefix

2009-11-29 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 15:03 -0500, MK wrote: I could not find a configure option for this, so in the src/ directory of the tarball I tried this: CFLAGS='-DMC_USERCONF_DIR=\.mc2\' is your friend. I think this would be a nice option and very easy to impliment as a command line option -- I

Re: multiple configs

2009-11-28 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 14:08 -0500, MK wrote: Is it possible to start mc with an alternate .ini file? Judging by the man page, I suspect not, but I have to ask. Only if you configure this copy to use something else than ~/.mc. If not, that would be my #1 feature request. Why? --

Re: multiple configs

2009-11-28 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 13:42 -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:08:53PM -0500, MK wrote: Is it possible to start mc with an alternate .ini file? Judging by the man page, I suspect not, but I have to ask. I found out with a simple experiment: $ mkdir mc-test # not

Re: multiple configs

2009-11-28 Thread /dev/rob0
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:45:17PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 13:42 -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:08:53PM -0500, MK wrote: Is it possible to start mc with an alternate .ini file? Judging by the man page, I suspect not, but I have to ask.