Re: mc Digest, Vol 142, Issue 12

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

I want the opposite.
 mc -V == GNU Midnight Commander unknown
 for 2009 Slakware.
The 2 <history buttons> don't show a list of where I've most recently been.
They tend to show: 80% all on the same sub-PATH of several boots ago.

OK RPi has v 4.8.3 shows recent visited & different for left/right panel.

BTW I think appending [with the ability to clear] to the clipbrd, would be
more useful that copying.

== Chris Glur.



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> I usually enable the privacy option on GUI desktop systems / file managers,
> which prevents them from keeping a menu of recently accessed files and
> directories, because I find the feature more troublesome than useful.
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> In plain Bash terminals instead I use a "private window" concept, borrowed
> from web browsers. Whenever I'm about to work on private data I type 'unset
> HISTFILE', after which all following commands typed into that window won't
> be saved in .bash_history
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> Is there a similar option for mc? Either a global option to avoid saving
> activity history (such as recently accessed files, directories, and
> commands) or a temporary switch akin to "private window"?
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> Otherwise, has anybody come up with some hook or script to do that?
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> I took a look at the files kept by mc and I found the following:
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> ~/.local/share/mc/history
> ~/.local/share/mc/filepos
> ~/.cache/mc/Tree
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> The first is the most troublesome file. I only want to keep the
> [user-fmt-input] and [mini_input] sections there (which are really
> configuration history, rather than activity history) and get rid of
> everything else. The second file contains activity history of recently
> edited files and the third contains the directories browsed using Tree
> view, so they need to go as well.
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> I just cleaned up those three files and gave them root:root 644
> permissions, which seems to be doing the trick: it keeps them read-only
> with no visible error message. But I'm wondering if there's a better option
> out there.
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> Toby
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