On 2013–05–26 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:36:00PM +0200, Marco wrote:usually the command prompt follows the directory of the active panel. But this doesn't work on shell links, it always stays on the local file system. When launching a command the following error pops up: “Cannot execute commands on non-local filesystems” Hitting ctrl-o to get a shell doesn't work either, it doesn't open a shell on the remote host. Is there a way to execute commands on the remote host without opening a dedicated ssh session?the fact that the link uses a remote shell is abstracted away by the VFS layer, so: no.
That's sad to hear.
however, i must say that i find the idea to expose the shell through a "side channel" intriguing. but this is not going to be an easy exercise to start with,
That doesn't sound very promising. I assume it doesn't make much sense to add a feature request to the bug tracker then.
and the fact that the synchronization between mc and the (local) shell is now even more broken than in mc <= 4.5 doesn't exactly make the challenge smaller.
I never used those older versions, I'm a rather new mc user and don't know much about the internals and history. Marco
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