[PATCH] space on prompt bugfix

[buc]

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. ;-))

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