On 2013–05–26 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:36:00PM +0200, Marco wrote: > > usually the command prompt follows the directory of the active > > panel. But this doesn't work on shell links, it always stays on the > > local file system. When launching a command the following error pops > > up: > > > > “Cannot execute commands on non-local filesystems” > > > > Hitting ctrl-o to get a shell doesn't work either, it doesn't open a > > shell on the remote host. > > > > Is there a way to execute commands on the remote host without > > opening a dedicated ssh session? > > > the fact that the link uses a remote shell is abstracted away by the VFS > layer, so: no.
That's sad to hear. > however, i must say that i find the idea to expose the shell through a > "side channel" intriguing. but this is not going to be an easy exercise > to start with, That doesn't sound very promising. I assume it doesn't make much sense to add a feature request to the bug tracker then. > and the fact that the synchronization between mc and the > (local) shell is now even more broken than in mc <= 4.5 doesn't exactly > make the challenge smaller. I never used those older versions, I'm a rather new mc user and don't know much about the internals and history. Marco
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