[PATCH] space on prompt bugfix
buc
buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Tue Mar 22 11:15:22 UTC 2005
Pavel Shirshov (pchel) wrote:
>Hello buc,
>
>Monday, March 21, 2005, 7:44:46 PM, you wrote:
>
>b> Intuitively, the MC can be perceived as a screen extension to shell
>b> (which became possible due to ncurses/slang lib and Ctr/Fn/Alt/Meta
>b> keyboard features). Therefore, MC`s cmdline should be closer to a shell
>b> command line, rather than a screen application input field.
>b> Currently, we have only one printable character -- Tab -- which
>b> behaves unser MC and a shell differently (and it is reasonable). But
>b> don`t add space to this list!
>b> There are a lot of keyboard buttons, modifier keys etc. to do things
>b> easy -- let MC cmdline be a "true command line".
>
>MC cmdline isn't a "true command line".
>
>Please. Read man mc.
>
> Macro Substitution
> When accessing a user menu, or executing an extension dependent com-
> mand, or running a command from the command line input, a simple macro
> substitution takes place.
>
>...................
>
> and so on.
>
>
>
I know. I meant it should be closer to a "true" command line (note
quotedbl).
Of couse, bash has no "%d"-like macro substitution and other features
(as an old bourne shell has no "$((...))" etc. ;-))
<dmitry at butskoj.name>
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