mc Digest, Vol 146, Issue 10

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Guus Bonnema wrote:

>
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> On 3-11-2016 22:09, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>>  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.
>
> I have been unclear. What I meant is that following a fresh install, MC 
> doesn't remember the current directory after closing MC. So open MC, 
> navigate, then close MC and you end up in the directory you started out in.

I understood what you meant; mc doesn't remember anything at all, this is 
done by shell wrappers, and these wrappers have to be activated first...

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev