Re[2]: [PATCH] space on prompt bugfix

["Pavel Shirshov (pchel)" <me pavelsh pp ru>]

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.

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       and so on.

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 Pavel                            mailto:me pavelsh pp ru