Re: mc bug ?

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Reynir Stefansson wrote:

> From: /dev/rob0 <rob0 gmx co uk>
> >
> > On Tuesday 2005-September-13 02:15, Maurice Beckles wrote:
> >
> > > trying the ctrl-o option to see if I could use my shell while having
> > > mc suspended. However when I switched back to the shell it freaked
> > > out and would not allow me to enter any commands and also gave me an
> > > error when I went back to mc.
> >
> > The shell is busy. This is a feature. Yes, it is annoying but when you
> > understand it you don't have this problem.
> >
> > In mc hit Ctrl-o again. Hit enter, in the shell. Ctrl-o to get back to
> > mc. All done.
>
> I haven't looked at the code yet, so I'm merely guessing that mc detects
> busy-shell by looking at keystrokes before passing them to the shell. That
> could explain why leafing through history flags busy if you don't finish
> with a newline.

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