Re: skitzoid start/quit location

[Felix Miata <mrmazda earthlink net>]

On 2012/06/03 20:16 (GMT-0400) Bob McIsaac composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

> >  I'm a heavy MC user with multiple installations of Fedora, Mageia,
> >  Mandriva, *Buntu,&  openSUSE, including devel versions. Since v4.7.5
> >  or v4.8.0 or so, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to where MC is
> >  located when initialized, or the dir current on exit. On some it
> >  always starts in a particular location, while in others it starts in
> >  the dir current when started, and same for quitting. I've turned off
> >  auto save setups wherever I've been able to find them.

> >  What controls this location of start and quit behavior? Looking in
> >  mc.ini nothing jumps out at me, same as in menu options. What I want
> >  is the old behavior from 4.6.1 or so, starting in the dir current when
> >  started, and staying in the dir current on exit. How can I get what I
> >  want in recent versions like 4.8.1&  4.8.3?

> MC is typically hosted on the desktop within a terminal so that probably
> determines where MC is looking. On Sabayon XFCE, MC is not a menu item
> so I start a terminal and type MC which shows my home directory.

Turns out 4.8.3 provides the old behavior. I just didn't have it installed on 
enough installations to recognize that only versions in between 4.7.something 
and prior to 4.8.3 were taking me out of . as it started up. Whether or not 
there's a setting that can control it I still don't know, but at least now it 
stays put until I want elsewhere.

>  Why set a directory hot-list for your favourites?

Mine are already lengthy. Adding more only makes others harder to use.

What I really miss terribly (on Linux, e.g. when not using OS/2 and FC/2) is 
a hotkey recent dirs list like FC/2 and FC/W have.
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