Execute command on a shell link

[Marco]

On 2013–05–26 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:36:00PM +0200, Marco wrote:
> > usually the command prompt follows the directory of the active
> > panel. But this doesn't work on shell links, it always stays on the
> > local file system. When launching a command the following error pops
> > up:
> > 
> >   “Cannot execute commands on non-local filesystems”
> > 
> > Hitting ctrl-o to get a shell doesn't work either, it doesn't open a
> > shell on the remote host.
> > 
> > Is there a way to execute commands on the remote host without
> > opening a dedicated ssh session?
> > 
> the fact that the link uses a remote shell is abstracted away by the VFS
> layer, so: no.

That's sad to hear.

> however, i must say that i find the idea to expose the shell through a
> "side channel" intriguing. but this is not going to be an easy exercise
> to start with,

That doesn't sound very promising. I assume it doesn't make much
sense to add a feature request to the bug tracker then.

> and the fact that the synchronization between mc and the
> (local) shell is now even more broken than in mc <= 4.5 doesn't exactly
> make the challenge smaller.

I never used those older versions, I'm a rather new mc user and
don't know much about the internals and history.

Marco
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