Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Jon TURNEY wrote: From: Jon TURNEY Subject: Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 3:21 PM On 09/07/2010 07:58, Marco Atzeri wrote: Snipped on my Win-XP SP2 under cygwin/X MC with F10 exits in the current directory Peter, as mc is an alias alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' I guess that under X this wrapper is working differently than under console Perhaps more likely, the alias isn't setup by the shell init scripts under xterm because of the way the xterm was started (which the OP hasn't said) (but is being setup for cmd.exe or rxvt) Note that it's impossible for mc to change the current directory of the parent shell without this alias. For the record, the xterm I used for this test was the one started from the cygwin-X start menu item. I still have not found the round tuits to compile a debugging version of MC to check this out in more detail, but I hope to do so sometime in the next 30 days (lots of RL intruding). I will reply again when I have more information. Thank you all for your advice and help. Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt
On 09/07/2010 07:58, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Ven 9/7/10, Larry Hall ha scritto: On 7/8/2010 10:35 PM, Peter Farley wrote: I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but if it is not please advise me where to send it. Midnight Commander exits with F10, and in a native bash window or rxvt F10 exits to the last directory viewed. In an xterm though, it exits to the original directory from which MC was started. on my Win-XP SP2 under cygwin/X MC with F10 exits in the current directory Peter, as mc is an alias alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' I guess that under X this wrapper is working differently than under console Perhaps more likely, the alias isn't setup by the shell init scripts under xterm because of the way the xterm was started (which the OP hasn't said) (but is being setup for cmd.exe or rxvt) Note that it's impossible for mc to change the current directory of the parent shell without this alias. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt
--- On Fri, 7/9/10, Marco Atzeri marco_atz...@yahoo.it wrote: From: Marco Atzeri marco_atz...@yahoo.it Subject: Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt Snipped on my Win-XP SP2 under cygwin/X MC with F10 exits in the current directory Peter, as mc is an alias alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' I guess that under X this wrapper is working differently than under console Marco, Thanks, but in my xterm which mc returns /usr/bin/mc, which is an exe and not an alias to the wrapper shell script. Executing /usr/bin/mc from an xterm prompt produces the same result, it exits to the MC invocation directory instead of the current one. Thanks for pointing out that wrapper script though. Most interesting. Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt
--- On Thu, 7/8/10, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-l...@cygwin.com wrote: From: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-l...@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt Snipped Sorry, I don't know anything about MC really but isn't there some doc on it that describes what F10 is supposed to do? Yes, there is, from the info mc pages: Quit (F10, Shift-F10) Terminate the Midnight Commander. Shift-F10 is used when you want to quit and you are using the shell wrapper. Shift-F10 will not take you to the last directory you visited with the Midnight Commander, instead it will stay at the directory where you started the Midnight Commander. I am not using the wrapper shell script, as far as I can tell (but I'm still looking hard to see if I am wrong about that). Simple F10 in an xterm though *always* exits to the original directory. Shift-F10 has no effect at all inside of MC from an xterm in the testing I have done (nor do Ctrl-F10 or Alt-F10). I guess it's *possible* that there is a bug that makes MC *think* it sees shift-F10 when only simple F10 was pressed, but that remains to be proven. I will have to run a debugging version of MC with gdb to see the difference between xterm and non-xterm behavior. I will report back when I have done that experiment. It might be a while, but I will report back. Thanks for your help and advice. Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt
--- Ven 9/7/10, Larry Hall ha scritto:
On 7/8/2010 10:35 PM, Peter Farley
wrote:
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this
question, but if it is
not please advise me where to send it.
Midnight Commander exits with F10, and in a native
bash window or rxvt F10
exits to the last directory viewed. In an xterm
though, it exits to the
original directory from which MC was started.
Do you think this a bug in MC or is it WAD? If
you think it's a bug in MC I
will gladly debug it myself, I just want to know if
it's WAD for xterm's
first.
I am using a fresh cygwin + cygwin/X install on WinXP
SP3, and I will supply
the usual problem report documentation if needed to
answer my question.
Sorry, I don't know anything about MC really but isn't
there some doc on
it that describes what F10 is supposed to do?
--
Larry Hall
on my Win-XP SP2 under cygwin/X
MC with F10 exits in the current directory
Peter,
as mc is an alias
alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
I guess that under X this wrapper is working
differently than under console
---mc-wrapper.sh--
MC_USER=`id | sed 's/[^(]*(//;s/).*//'`
MC_PWD_FILE=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/mc-$MC_USER/mc.pwd.$$
/usr/bin/mc -P $MC_PWD_FILE $@
if test -r $MC_PWD_FILE; then
MC_PWD=`cat $MC_PWD_FILE`
if test -n $MC_PWD test -d $MC_PWD; then
cd $MC_PWD
fi
unset MC_PWD
fi
rm -f $MC_PWD_FILE
unset MC_PWD_FILE
Regards
Marco
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Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but if it is not please advise me where to send it. Midnight Commander exits with F10, and in a native bash window or rxvt F10 exits to the last directory viewed. In an xterm though, it exits to the original directory from which MC was started. Do you think this a bug in MC or is it WAD? If you think it's a bug in MC I will gladly debug it myself, I just want to know if it's WAD for xterm's first. I am using a fresh cygwin + cygwin/X install on WinXP SP3, and I will supply the usual problem report documentation if needed to answer my question. Regards, Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt
On 7/8/2010 10:35 PM, Peter Farley wrote: I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but if it is not please advise me where to send it. Midnight Commander exits with F10, and in a native bash window or rxvt F10 exits to the last directory viewed. In an xterm though, it exits to the original directory from which MC was started. Do you think this a bug in MC or is it WAD? If you think it's a bug in MC I will gladly debug it myself, I just want to know if it's WAD for xterm's first. I am using a fresh cygwin + cygwin/X install on WinXP SP3, and I will supply the usual problem report documentation if needed to answer my question. Sorry, I don't know anything about MC really but isn't there some doc on it that describes what F10 is supposed to do? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
