Re: Help fixes & Misc.

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <kai cmail ru>]

> > > The script should not be re-run if we don't preserve it.  Pressing F8 
> > > essentially restarts the viewer.  Possible solutions:
> > >
> > > 1) Get rid of the scripts, use system() or something like that.  The
> > > reason to use scripts was to enforce Bourne shell syntax (see comment in
> > > ext.c).  But I think that all advanced scripting should be kept out of 
> > > mc.ext.
> > >
> > > 2) Preserve scripts until the viewer exits.
> >
> > This is old behaviour.  Require roll back some changes from CVS.
>
>
> Right, the self-removing scripts were introduced for gmc, that would
> fork() an process and never erase the script itself.
>
> If we decide that we never run anything asynchronously on F3, we can clean
> scripts for the viewer when the viewer is done.  But I'm almost sure that
> somebody will want to run an viewer for X on F3 and expect mc to be ready
> for the next command before the viewer finishes.
>
> Anyway, it's a good short-term solution for the viewer.
>
> The long-term solution would be to eliminate the need in the temporary
> scripts whenever possible, and or implement garbage collection for the
> rest.  External viewers should be given some time to load local copies of
> the remote files (possibly the VFS timestamping can be reused).


It will be fine to keep these scripts in memory and execute this as
'sh -c' command or give these ones as sh stdin.
These scripts are rather short usually.

> > > Maybe we could set SUBDIRS in doc/Makefile.am to @LINGUAS@ ?  By the way, 
> > > configure.in should be using LINGUAS, not ALL_LINGUAS.
> >
> > I agree with LINGUAS change, and does not require many changes.
> > Unfortunatelly automake fails if any of directories from SUBDIRS does 
> > not exist.  And automake know nothing about GNU make functions.
>
>
> But they do exist in the sources!  I understand you want to control which 
> of them to install, right?


There are 33 entries in the LINGUAS and only 5 translated manuals in the 
doc.