Op 26-03-09 14:24, Jari Aalto schreef:
Package: wcd
Version: 3.2.0-1
Severity: normal
Wcd records information using absolute path names:
$ cd ~/some/project/tree/deep/here
$ wcd -l
Enter alias for current directory: test
$ cat $WCDHOME/.alias.wcd
/mnt/nfs/sripe-server/home/user/staff/depatment-xx/j/ja/jaalto/some/project/tree/deep/here
And this happens:
$ wcd test
/mnt/nfs/sripe-server/home/user/staff/depatment-xx/j/ja/jaalto/some/project/tree/deep/here$
Notice the prompt, where cursor sithe to the rightmost of ($). The typical bash
setting contains
the path name '\w' to keep track of current directory:
$ echo $PS1
\...@\h \w\$
SUGGESTION
Please substitute all path names so that the tilde(~) is used instead
of absolute path name. To my understanding all interactive *user*
shells (csh, tcsh, bash, ksh, pdksh etc.) support tilde expansion, so
this should not create interactive use problems. Alternativey add new
configuration option that would export path using tilde.
This idea would be same as applying following code, before storing the
PATH information:
pwd | sed "s,$HOME,~,"
Naturally implement in C, using getenv("HOME") ans some string
manipulation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wcd depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
wcd recommends no packages.
wcd suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Wcd will report the same path as `/bin/pwd', and that is different than
the shell builtin `pwd' command. For instance if you cd to a soft link
that is a link to a directory `pwd' will report a different path than
`/bin/pwd'. Wcd has no access to the shell builtin commands. That is
also the reason why the wcd executable cannot change directory, and we
have to do a trick with a shell function.
Replacing $HOME with ~ will not work in multi-user environments if
people start reading each others .wcd files. ~ has a different meaning
for every user.
It looks like that on your system the auto mounter has mounted your
$HOME to /mnt/nfs/sripe-server/home/user/staff/depatment-xx/j/ja/jaalto
What path do you get if you type `pwd' and `/bin/pwd' in your $HOME
directory?
Wcd assumes a default way of working of the auto mounter, that all HOME
directories are auto mounted in /tmp_mnt/.
For instance my HOME dir is mounted to
/tmp_mnt/home/waterlan
In my HOME dir the output of pwd is as follows:
>pwd
/home/waterlan
>/bin/pwd
/tmp_mnt/home/waterlan
Wcd will also see /tmp_mnt/home/waterlan, but automatically strips
/tmp_mnt from the path.
The "/tmp_mnt" string is hard coded in Wcd. Perhaps it is better to make
this configurable.
best regards,
Erwin
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