Re: Makeing the subshell reliable

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

> > The shell prompt string itself.
> ok. maybe it would make sense to implement an own bash-compatible PS1
> interpreter. trying to make sense of almost arbitrary program output
> sort of has to fail.

Maybe we can even borrow the code directly from bash (or some other shell)
and embed it into MC.

> > > >   * execution of commands typed at MC's prompt widget trough the
> > > >     subshell
> > > read my lips: NO WAY IN HELL. ;)
> > > this is one of the few actual selling points of mc over all the other
> >
> > The prompt widget or the fact that if the subshell is enabled commands
> > are executed trough the subshell ? Don't get me wrong - I want to keep
> > the prompt widget. What I propose is to handle commands typed at it
> > just as if the subshell is disabled. I cannot see how commands typed
> > at the prompt and executed trough the subshell give MC an advantage
> > over the other file managers.
> the fact that i can switch the panels on and off at any time - without
> losing the command's output.

Even without the subshell the command output doesn't get lost - just try 
it. It is taken care of.

> > The problem that I was debugging - it was related to this feature. In
> > short: [...]
> yes, i remember that discussion pretty well. it's, indeed, no simple
> problem.

Well, a fix was checked in which was supposed to fix the issue - that
was almost 4 year ago. Some years laters a variation of the same bug hits
again...