[mc] history not always history

[Andrew Borodin]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 08:18:30 -0500 Rob McGee via mc <mc at lists.midnight-commander.org> wrote:
> On 2023-08-05 21:00, mi via mc wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

There is another way, not so extreme. You can define environment variable $MC_ROOT_PROFILE
with the path to the directory where _all_ mc user files will be located (see man mc for details):

$ MC_PROFILE_ROOT=/home/andrew/mc-tmp-root mc -F
Home directory: /home/andrew
Profile root directory: /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root

[System data]
    Config directory: /etc/mc/
    Data directory:   /usr/share/mc/
    File extension handlers: /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/
    VFS plugins and scripts: /usr/lib/mc/
	extfs.d:        /usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/
	fish:           /usr/lib/mc/fish/

[User data]
    Config directory: /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.config/mc/
    Data directory:   /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.local/share/mc/
	skins:          /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.local/share/mc/skins/
	extfs.d:        /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
	fish:           /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.local/share/mc/fish/
	mcedit macros:  /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
	mcedit external macros: /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*
    Cache directory:  /home/andrew/mc-tmp-root/.cache/mc/

Just remove this directory after exiting mc.

-- 
Andrew