[mc] history not always history

[Rob McGee]

On 2023-08-05 21:00, mi via mc wrote:
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> It rather looks like erase history  with Shift+H  then Shift+Delete  does not delete anything in  ~/.local/share/mc/history ... and ~/.config/ini other_dir has one very old entry, it seems like an artefact.

My thought (and this would have fit better in the other thread) would be 
to put your $HOME on tmpfs. Your history saves normally, and it's usable 
from session to session, until a reboot. You could populate your ~/.mc 
and other settings from safe defaults, with a script at boot time. (In 
cases where you do need to save settings changes, you can update the 
safe defaults with a simple cp command.)

tmpfs in Linux uses swap to keep files out of active RAM. So this is an 
issue I solved long ago: at boot time I generated a random passphrase to 
encrypt the loop device. Even I could not decrypt it, because the 
passphrase was never saved.

Note: this scheme was created for similar concerns. I am thankful that 
in the ~24 years since then, the feared attack never occurred. I did, 
however, suffer a theft of my machine in 2008 (not by police.)

> # mc --version...
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    http://rob0.nodns4.us/