An old patch

[Attila Feher (LMF)]

Do you always treat newcomers with complete silence?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Attila Feher (LMF) [mailto:Attila.Feher at lmf.ericsson.se]
> Sent: 2003. január 29. szerda 8:04
> To: 'mc-devel at gnome.org'
> Subject: An old patch
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Finally I was able to find the MC headquarters! :-)
> 
> I use an ancient mc (version so old it is unimportant) on 
> Solaris.  Ages ago I have patched its sources to have a (for 
> me) very useful added feature.  That is: you can tell in the 
> menu/extension file, if a prompt can be left empty:
> 
> 8<----
> m       Run make with no pars, output to makeout
>         TARGET=%{.Enter parameters}
>         dtterm -geometry 184x67+0+0 -title "Make" -e wwmake $TARGET &
> ---->8
> 
> 
> 
> This is an example of the use of it: my "Makefile handler".  
> Please observe the "." immediately after the opening curly 
> brace!  It is very convenient.  I just press F2-m and then an 
> enter to start make for the default target.
> 
> Now - of course - I absolutely do not remember what I have 
> changed.  But I can diff to the original sources to tell.  I 
> do not remember if I did the same change for the extension 
> file or not - of course it would be helpful there as well.
> 
> Why do I write?  I would like to get this change into the 
> official version.  I have tried to compile it here - but it 
> want glibc and other stuff I do not have - and I do not have 
> time now to download and build everything.  Especialy because 
> I have to configure things with an awful lot of changes due 
> to our restricted environment (and ancient compilers).
> 
> My question: could anyone add this simple change to the 
> current code or help me to do it?  I am absolutely not 
> familiar with sourceforge and CVS. :-(  I better be, but I am not.
> 
> Please mail me directly!
> 
> Attila
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