mc Digest, Vol 146, Issue 10

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, solarflow99 wrote:

> Could this explain it?
> 
>   https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2016-October/msg00009.html

Most likely it can be simply explained by the fact that shell wrappers 
don't take effect until you re-login, so on a freshly installed system mc 
will not remember last directory right after installing the package.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev

> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 3:07 AM, A.J. Bonnema <gbonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>       On 10/15/2016 10:57 AM, Mike wrote:
>             I've never met Peter Norton. I think I installed some Norton software in the 90s. I don't recall much
>             about it or him so I have nothing to compare. I think there is a nc clone/wannabee out there somewhere,
>             but mc is only similar by accident - the 2 panel thing. Apparently it is a "visual shell for *nix
>             environments", not a "file manager", although I categorize it as one, like most users I think. midnight
>             commander has its origins from the 90s too. It sucked far worse back then.
>
>       Hey Mike,
>
>       I used to love Norton Commander (nc) because of its function keys for copy and move in combination with easy
>       selection of files. Those are the traits that mc copied from norton and made me start using MC. Probably MC also
>       copied the editting. In comparison to DOS at the time, Norton Commander was really a breeze of fresh air. He really
>       thought things through. When I switched to Linux I went  to MC and never looked back. He also made other more
>       system oriented software for windows, but I am getting OT now.
>
>       Anyway, I like MC for the same reasons and especially for the reason it is reliable. With one exception everything
>       works as I expect it to. The exception is that sometimes the current directory is remembered when finishing MC, and
>       sometimes it isn't and you end up in the original directory that you started MC. This usually happens after full
>       upgrade or installing a new OS (Fedora -> Ubuntu or back)
>
>       I haven't seen this for a while, so probably the setup of MC has improved. I work from Fedora 24 atm.
>
>       Kind regards, Guus.
> 
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