Inconsistent behaviour of Options

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Thu Mar 9 22:40:57 UTC 2006


Hello Pavel,

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:31 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> ... and if you exit from mc rather than e.g. close the xterm window.
> And if you don't have another mc running that would overwrite those
> settings if you exit from it properly.

The latter would still be a problem with direct saves. And that "auto
save setup" only works on normal programme termination should be
obvious.

> I think that "auto save setup" is something that cannot be implemented
> reliably in mc unless you make "Ok" work exactly like "Save" and save
> changes immediately.

But then the option auto save setup would be redundant... Unless you
mean that the behaviour of "Ok" should be changed based on the current
"auto save" setting.

Leonard.

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