MC topdir /.. remove!

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Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> schrieb am 22.01.03 15:42:30: 
> > /..   <- doubledots 
>  
> Yes.  The patch was suggested by Bulia Byak <bulia at dr.com> and nobody 
> complained. 
 
Sad, I'm not subscribed to the list anymore because of some internal problems for a couple of 
weeks so I must have missed that one otherwise I would have complained *loudly* about it. 
Please forgive if I complain now. 
 
> > prefs. I used to use it that way for many years now and Now the first 
> > entry is /bin here no topmost /.. or /. to push. 
>  
> I don't understand.  Could you please explain it in more details?  What 
> are you trying to do?  Why is it a problem for you?  Why do you care about 
> the root directory? 
 
Well, first of all I really like to have that feature back or at least an option in prefs to enable it 
again. 
 
Well how to explain the "problem" it's more a feel and use for a bunch of years and I find it 
totally annyoing how it is now it's not the way how I used to use it anymore. 
 
. From the filesystem point of view you know when you do a 'ls -l' you see 
 
. 
.. 
blahdir2 
blahdir3 
file1 
file2 
 
It's a known filesystem behaviour which got removed now. If you enter cd .. then you get put 
back one dir, If you enter 'cd .' you get directory changed and refreshed into the same dir e.g. if 
you removed a dir with MC and on another terminal you are still in the dir and you unpack the dir 
again then doing an 'ls -l' will give you no output. you need to refresh the dir you can either cd 
completyl into the dir again from root or you simply enter 'cd .' that was the SAME purpose and 
meaning in MC. 
 
here a practical example 
 
- open 2 dirs with MC 
- now open another terminal in the console and remove one dir completely (from the dir you see 
in mc) 
- MC didn't updated this dir. 
- the usual correct way to refresh this dir is either 'refresh it form menu or shortkey' or moving 
with the cursor to the top of the dir (usually homekey or screen up) and press return on the '/..' 
or '/.' bar. It will rescan the dir and refresh the output and shows me the dir removed. Now as is 
I need to go inside of /bin /dev or any other dir and go out again to see the Dir changed or need 
to press refresh. 
 
So you basically cut some of the features of a correct directory management by implementing 
that patch. So I really like to ask you to remove that patch again or make it optional in the prefs 
e.g. 'Showing topmost dot in Root' or something but removing it completely is wrong and not 
well thought. Please put it back in again. 
 
Thank you. 
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