Package: mc Version: 2:4.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
The internal cd command is very limited. It doesn't support % substitutions, doesn't expands variables nor output of external commands It's impossible to do for example: cd %D cd TES* (if only one dir matches the wildcard) cd `/bin/pwd` cd $SOMEVAR cd somedir || echo fail All of the above commands do work in any normal shell, but not in mc. However after defining the follwing alias in bash alias ccd='cd' I can use `ccd %D', `ccd $VAR' etc. in mc. I wish this could be possible without the alias - either support for such an advanced features could be added to mc, or mc could provide a way to disable the internal cd in favour of the shell built-in one. Regards, Robert -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28vox Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/pdksh Versions of packages mc depends on: ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.1 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libslang2 2.1.3-3 The S-Lang programming library - r mc recommends no packages. Versions of packages mc suggests: ii arj 3.10.22-6 archiver for .arj files ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dbview 1.0.4-1 View dBase III files ii file 4.26-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii links 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in text mode ii lynx 2.8.7dev13-1 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap pn odt2txt <none> (no description available) ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii unzip 5.52-12 De-archiver for .zip files ii w3m 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent pn xpdf <none> (no description available) ii zip 2.32-1 Archiver for .zip files -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org