Re: subshell prompt fix

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jindrich Novy wrote:

> Hello Pavel,
>
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 21:42 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 11:29, Pavel Shirshov (pchel) wrote:
> > > >     But. I see another:
> > > >     1) run mc
> > > >     2) C-o
> > > >     3) C-o again
> > > >     4) C-o
> > > >
> > > >     2) you see: genie#
> > > >     4) you see:
> > > >     ^^^^^^^^^^^ I can't see promt.
> > >
> > > Weird, I'm unable to reproduce your case, which terminal do you use?
> > > It's smoothly reproducible with gnome-terminal and xterm, I haven't
> > > tried rxvt. Do you chdir in steps 2) and 4) ?
> >
> > I've just tried the above on a FreeBSD machine account provided by Pavel
> > Shirshov. I run FC3 with GNOME desktop so I use gnome-terminal. When I
> > ssh into the remote machine (FreeBSD) I have the TERM variable set to
> > 'xterm' - in this case everything is fine. Now, I've tried changing the
> > value of TERM to 'vt220'... surprise, surprise - the subshell prompt is
> > missing just as Pavel says. So I've started a fresh gnome-terminal
> > on my machine (FC3) and set TERM to 'vt220' - again no prompt. I've tried
> > also with konsole with the same result.
> >
> > Soooo... what does this mean ? :)
>
> Please see the top of the thread:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2004-November/msg00031.html
>
> Since you're running FC3 with GNOME desktop and gnome-terminal with
> TERM=xterm, you should smoothly reproduce the original bug I've been
> trying to fix since I found this bug exactly with the same
> configuration.

I am able to reproduce the bug that you've reported. I was trying to
reproduce the behaviour that Pavel Shirshov has experienced.

I'll try to review the new patch.