On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:54:18PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > I also don't remember having major trouble with the subshell myself > but then there are enough records in this mailing list and in other > places which testify that the subshell is causing a lot of confusion. > yes, it simply doesn't always behave exactly intuitively, so it requires getting used to it. btw, maybe you want to take a look at kde's konsole. i think it can do command injection and other magic, so maybe it has some interesting code - http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/konsole/ .
> > the second variant would be embedding the real shell prompt into the > > panels. this could work by presenting the shell a really tiny pty. > > to > > Could you elaborate, please ? Do you mean implementing another view > for the panels that will display the output of the subshell and will > pass the user input to the subshell ? In short the same behaviour that > is currently invoked by pressing Ctrl+O ? > yup. > Shall we keep the prompt in this case ? > i think it would be logical. > The current code would work well if: [...] > then it would be trivial. the fun would be gone then. :))) > Reading /proc (if mounted) seems appropriate since it is available on > most of the popular platforms. > in principle yes, but every system has it's own /proc format, which some of are binary. > Of course we could fallback if proc is not available. > makes sense. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
