Re: Mc Digest, Vol 43, Issue 9



Hello Pavel,


On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:47:25 +0200 Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net> wrote:

Hello chris,

Friday, November 23, 2007, 6:54:44 AM, you wrote:

previous posters wrote:
|>>> Do you refer to the notorious "The shell is already running a
command" issue ?

|>> Yes, this one exactly.

|Ok. Yes - it is really hard to fix. You've been around for many years
|now so I'd expect you to know more about this issue. Anyway...
.... snip ..
| It really is not
|that simple to fix it. And it really isn't and error.
==================
It's not an error, but it's very annoying.
I.e. it doesn't have a technical solution, but it does
have a 'socio-managment' solution: just make it known up-front
and suggest a work around.

The problem which is as annoying as "getting a mesg to first
complete some other task, when you want to apply breaks on
your vehicle", and should not be trivialised.

Only after much frustration did I find a work-around:
* Ctrl O to get 'behind the current ?shell?',
* Ctrl C to stop/attend to the 'problematic proccess',
* ls : just to select some task to confirm that some thing
    can be done,
* Ctrl O to get back to select what was intended to be done.

It happens to me often after I've gone on-line [dialup] and
a system generated mesg has come to my mail: I can't execute
my intended inet-fetch-script until I acknowledge the damned
mail-mesg by the steps above.

Many linux users hate mc. Perhaps this quirk is the reason ?

Do you have any evidence which points towards that ?

If a work-around is made known up-front, this avoids
frustration ?

A workaround such as what ? A possible workaround depends
very much on why the messages is displayed. You could
have started an interactive program in the shell and
forgotton about it, next you type a command in the
prompt widget and the error box is displayed ... what should
you do about that ? There are different scenarios which
my trigger the error message.

The itchy thing that was my concern, is then the "error" message is
raised whenever it should NOT be (nothing is running in background -
BTW it's not mandatorily ctrl+c that I have to press when back to
subshell, it works w/ [enter]). Someone said in the thread that it's
not an error message.. I'm OK w/ that assertion, but getting this
message under certain conditions, *is* erroneous, it's a false positive.


Regards,

-- 
wwp

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