Re: [PATCH] space on prompt bugfix

[buc <buc odusz so-cdu ru>]

Pavel Shirshov (pchel) wrote:

> Hello buc,
>
> Monday, March 21, 2005, 7:44:46 PM, you wrote:
>
> b> Intuitively, the MC can be perceived as a screen extension to shell
> b> (which became possible due to ncurses/slang lib and Ctr/Fn/Alt/Meta
> b> keyboard features). Therefore, MC`s cmdline should be closer to a shell
> b> command line, rather than a screen application input field.
> b>    Currently, we have only one printable character -- Tab -- which 
> b> behaves unser MC and a shell differently (and it is reasonable). But
> b> don`t add space to this list!
> b>    There are a lot of keyboard buttons, modifier keys etc. to do things
> b> easy -- let MC cmdline be a "true command line".
>
> MC cmdline isn't a "true command line".
>
> Please. Read man mc.
>
>  Macro Substitution
>       When  accessing  a  user menu, or executing an extension dependent com-
>       mand, or running a command from the command line input, a simple  macro
>       substitution takes place.
>
> ...................
>
>       and so on.
>
>  
I know. I meant it should be closer to a "true" command line (note 
quotedbl).
Of couse, bash has no "%d"-like macro substitution and other features
(as an old bourne shell has no "$((...))" etc. ;-))

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