Re: Inconsistent behaviour of Options

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, wwp wrote:

> Hello Pavel,
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:59:25 +0200 Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 23:14 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> > > > Hi Jindrich,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 13:48 +0100, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > > > > 1. "Ok" sets the parameters only for the current session and won't
> > > > > touch the ini file.
> > > >
> > > > "Ok" is equivalent to "save" if "auto save setup" is set.
> > >
> > > ... and if you exit from mc rather than e.g. close the xterm window.
> > > And if you don't have another mc running that would overwrite those
> > > settings if you exit from it properly.
> > >
> > > I think that "auto save setup" is something that cannot be implemented
> > > reliably in mc unless you make "Ok" work exactly like "Save" and save
> > > changes immediately.
> >
> > I think this is a reasonable approch. If we go that way we can safely
> > remove "Save setup" and auto_save_setup.
>
> That means that you would not be able to modify some options w/o saving them
> (and thus, affect all further instances)?

Hmm... This is a strong indication that those options do not belong to the
Options menu, IMO.