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zipfs cache problem

Kovács Zoltán — 2012-05-04T10:21:23

Dear Developers,

Thank you for this great piece of software!

I found that mc's zipfs caches the archive contents by using the file name
only. This can be a problem if a different file is used with the same name
later. As far as I know, this bug is still present in the newest mc as well.

Best regards,
Zoltan Kovacs
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translator help

Marco Ciampa — 2012-04-10T23:52:48

I used to be the Italian MC translator.
Now I cannot access the git archive.
I was not active for a long time and MC needs to be updated.

May I re-gain vc write permission again?

I cannot think that a web interface is a good thing for a 
caracter-space constrained application as is MC. Messages needs to be
finely space calibrated...only a compilation could test it well. IMHO a
translator needs to compile and test the program _before_ committing to
any user-frendly web interface as Transiflex...in this regard Transiflex
could easily drive to translation(positional/space) errors...

TIA

mc appends apostrophe to PATH environment variable

2012-04-04T15:24:21

Hi!

I just found that mc appends an apostrophe to the PATH environment
variable, rendering the last entry in the search path unusable. As this
has not been seen before, it looks to me that one of the last updates
introduced this.

The problem can easily be reproduced:
- enter a valid PATH specification
- export PATH
- env|grep ^PATH= shows correct value
- startup mc (not using the wrapper scripts)
- enter the command "env|grep ^PATH="

-> PATH environment variable has an appended apostrophe now


I'm currently using:
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.2
Built with GLib 2.30.3

Build and installed on up to date Gentoo based system.

Feel free to ask for more information, if required. I'm not subscribed
so please mail me.

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mc.ext is problematic by nature

László Monda — 2012-04-06T22:04:49

Hi List,

Upon reinstalling Linux I had to face mc.ext having lots of
associations that refer to outdated applications.  This is a specific
case but there's a general problem.

The first problem is that MC is supposed to be a cross-platform file
manager and as such it's not possible to cherry-pick applications that
are the best on every platform.  The second problem is that these
applications are in flux and the most popular ones will change by
time.

There are lots of tickets requesting mc.ext changes because of the
above.  On the long run this is a fight against windmills.

Has anybody considered using platform-specific native registries of
file associations instead of using mc.ext?

(Maybe mc.ext shouldn't be deprecated but platform-specific native
registries should be the default and those could be overridden in
mc.ext.)

Midnight Commender 4.8.2 (latest) released

Slava Zanko — 2012-03-20T11:27:09

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Hi all,

mc-4.8.2 now released.

Download page: http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads?order=id&desc=1


Major changes and fixes since 4.8.1
(https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.2)

- - Core

  * Added new flag -X (--no-x11) to allow dont't use X11 to get the
state of modifiers Alt, Ctrl, Shift
  * Support of '~' as home dir in 'Start at:' field in 'Find File' dialog
  * Support of '~' as home dir in hotlists
  * Learn of 'Back Tab' is possible now in 'Learn keys' dialog
  * Optional '0x' prefix for hexadecimal search
  * Dynamically resize panels
  * New bindings (ScrollLeft, ScrollRight) for scroll long filenames
in panels

- - VFS

  * Internal VFS reorganization

- - Editor

  * Added as.syntax

- - Viewer

  * Added action bindings for backward search

- - Misc

  * Added hotkeys for all radio/check-buttons in search/replace dialogs
  * New file bindings:
    - .m4v, .ts - video
    - djv - DjVu
  * Simplify mc.menu - remove LZMA|LZ and change p7 to 7z
  * Updated list of known browsers: gnome-moz-remote mozilla firefox
konqueror opera
  * Added MC_HOME environment variable to set up home directory of MC
  * Lot of code cleanup

- - Fixes

  * Compile failure of 4.8.1 on xBSD because "Undefined symbols:
_posix_fallocate"
  * MC deletes the wrong file because of forced panel reload before
file operation
  * Cannot chdir to directory if directory name contains the dollar sign
  * Incorrect panel size after change panel split type
  * Wrong total bytes counter for subdirs in copy/move dialog
  * Display corruption in panels after window shrink
  * Command line is unaccessible from tree panel
  * Extra confirmation before delete an empty hotlist group
  * Can't open an edit zero-length file from VFS in mcedit
  * mcedit crashes when ~/.config is a file
  * mcedit: reset selection after END/HOME/PgDn/PgUp
  * 'make check' fails on arm and alpha (-z muldefs)

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Midnight Commander 4.8.1.1 (stable) released

Slava Zanko — 2012-03-20T11:01:01

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Hi all,

mc-4.8.1.1 now released (stable).

Download page: http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads?order=id&desc=1

Major changes and fixes since 4.8.1:
(http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.1.1)

Version 4.8.1.1

- - Core

  * Added new flag -X (--no-x11) to allow dont't use X11 to get the
state of modifiers Alt, Ctrl, Shift
  * Support of '~' as home dir in 'Start at:' field in 'Find File' dialog
  * Support of '~' as home dir in hotlists
  * Learning of 'Back Tab' now is possible from 'Learn keys' dialog
  * Optional '0x' prefix for hexadecimal search

- - Editor

  * Added as.syntax

- - Viewer

  * Added action bindings for backward search

- - Misc

  * Added hotkeys for all radio/check-buttons in search/replace dialogs
  * New file bindings:
      - .m4v, .ts - video
      - djv - DjVu
  * Simplify mc.menu - remove LZMA|LZ and change p7 to 7z
  * Updated list of known browsers: gnome-moz-remote mozilla firefox
konqueror opera
  * Added MC_HOME environment variable to set up home directory of MC

- - Fixes

  * Compile failure of 4.8.1 on xBSD because "Undefined symbols:
_posix_fallocate"
  * MC deletes the wrong file because of forced panel reload before
file operation
  * Cannot chdir to directory if directory name contains the dollar sign
  * Incorrect panel size after change panel split type
  * Wrong total bytes counter for subdirs in copy/move dialog
  * Display corruption in panels after window shrink
  * Command line is unaccessible from tree panel
  * Extra confirmation before delete an empty hotlist group
  * Can't open an edit zero-length file from VFS in mcedit
  * mcedit crashes when ~/.config is a file
  * mcedit: reset selection after END/HOME/PgDn/PgUp
  * 'make check' fails on arm and alpha (-z muldefs)

- -- 
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Gputils .lib VFS handler

Molnár Károly — 2012-03-06T15:36:30

Respected developers!

My English is limited. The translated text of a letter to translate.google.com.
The patch on the gputils archive (.lib) manages the VFS using.

Best regards:

Molnár Károly
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mcedit tags completion

Sergey Naumov — 2012-03-03T12:45:51

Hello.

I would like to ask whether it is possible in mcedit to make
autocompletion use TAGS file? Now when I press M-Enter while cursor is
on incomplete function name, mcedit suggests me to jump to function
definition in another file, but when I press E-Tab, function's name
can't be completed. If it is not possible, is there plans to introduce
this functionality? And maybe it is better to show also function
parameters, if they are present in the TAGS file just in case smbd
forgot a function interface?

Also is there a way to enable emacs-like or similar cursor movement
commands in mcedit like in mc?

Thanks in advance,
Sergey Naumov.
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Forced HTTPS on web site

Alexander Kriegisch — 2012-03-09T14:31:53

Sorry, it is me again with yet another improvement idea: Currently
mignight-commander.org redirects non-https URLs to https, resulting in a
certificate warning because of your self-signed cert. This is scaring
away users rather than inviting them to access your web site. It does
not make a professional impression for one of Linux's most acclaimed
software packages. I do understand that you want to have an encrypted
connection when editing the wiki or administering the page as a logged
in user, but to force read-only access to be https is a bit too much, I
guess. It also creates more client and server load than necessary. Maybe
it would be a good idea to either use a commercial certificate or, if
that is too expensive, continue using the self-signed one, but only to
log in and after you are logged in. Plus, the registration and login
dialogues should show an explanation of why you use https and a how-to
for installing the cert into the most popular browsers (including a
quote of the cert's fingerprint).

It is about making it easy for users again, like in the other threads.
Me personally, I know how to import a cert, but this knowledge should
not be necessary to access your web site without being annoyed by the
warning all the time (e.g. after a browser restart). You want to make
sure to attract users and help them contribute or at least consume, not
scare them away. :-)

How to add subshell support for ash

Alexander Kriegisch — 2012-03-03T13:41:39

I am on an embedded environment. Bash is available as a separate
package, but huge in comparison with the built-in ash of BusyBox.

Disclaimer before I continue: I am *not* a C programmer. I can read a
bit of C, but not develop anything meaningful other than copy, paste and
modify existing code. So bear with me anyway, if you please.

I looked into src/subshell.c and tried to figure out what happens there.
I have started to add ash support, but MC seems to depend on
PROMPT_COMMAND/precmd/fish_prompt, i.e. on a function or alias which is
executed each time just before a prompt is printed. Ash does not have
anything like that, AFAIK. If I understand correctly, using those
pre-commands are MC's way of determining the cwd. I wonder why you do
not just use something like pwd or $PWD, but OTOH I do not understand
the difficulties of corresponding with the subshell.

Anyway, in my case it would be absolutely fine to set a fixed value of
PS1='\w\$ ' for the subshell and read the cwd from the prompt. In any
case it would be better than not having the option of using ash as a
subshell at all.

Could anyone maybe provide me with a code snippet or a patch which shows
me how to extract the cwd from the prompt assuming that PS1 has the
value '\w\$ '? (BTW, '\$' will be evaluated to '$' or '#' in ash,
depending on whether you are root or not.)

Thank you so much. If I succeed in adding ash as a subshell, I will
provide a (raw) patch for you to inspect and maybe refine and include
upstream.

Thanks in advance and kind regards

More skins?

Oliver Lange — 2012-02-27T12:20:10

Howdy,

I've noticed that there could be a few more 256-color skins shipped
with mc, as this feature is now supported. Only two so far..

I've recently created a 256er skin (in 4 variants) and ask myself
if you'd be interested in maybe adding a few more skins to future
mc releases?

If so, how would i submit skins? I find it a bit complicated to
use git or something, maybe an email with a small attached
skin.tar.gz or an email with pasted skin contents or some kinda
easy-peasy upload URL/form or.. [insert here]

[PATCH] mc with vim bindings

Sergey Mironov — 2012-01-22T18:51:45

Hello. Please, review/comment/add a patch, allowing to run mc with
--vi-style option (hjkl navigation + ability to map single-letter
keys)

Whole repo with this patch applied is available at
https://github.com/ierton/mc-vimbind

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autogen.sh failure

Guido Van Hoecke — 2012-01-22T12:29:21

Hi,

I would like to build my own mc on my iMac running Lion (OS/X 10.7.2).

I cloned the git repository and ran ./autogen.sh but that threw
following error:

configure.ac:62: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

I reran the script as sh -x autoconf.sh to find out where it failed
exactly and I have attached the zipped output.

I checked the prerequisites mentionned in the above document:

$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.10
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org>
       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org>.

Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ gettext --version
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.18.1
Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.

$ pkg-config --version
0.25

I am not sure how to test the version of the glib library, so I decided
to run autogen.sh and see what happens.

The above occurs with the master branch as well as with the 4.8.1-stable
branch. It does not occur with the 4.7.5-stable branch.

Please advise how to fix the AC_MSG_WARN error.

With kind regards,
Thanks in advance,


Guido

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mc stable 4.8 vs. precise pangolin

Egmont Koblinger — 2012-01-19T12:08:48

Hi devs,

Probably the most popular Linux distro, Ubuntu will release its next LTS
(long term support = 5 years) edition, codenamed Precise Pangolin this
April.

In my opinion, it might speed up and ease the work of MC developers for the
next couple of years if we could manage to leave the 4.7 branch behind and
focus on 4.8 and newer ones as soon as possible.  For this, I think that
making Pangolin ship 4.8 would be a great step.

What needs to be done for that?  Figure out Ubuntu's release schedule (when
is the version freeze etc.), talk to the maintainer of MC package, release
the first stable of 4.8 branch (4.8.1.1) rather soon than late (I'm almost
sure they wouldn't include an officially non-stable release in LTS) ??? --
I don't know...

What do you guys think?  Is it worth the effort?

thanks,
egmont
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WG: Re: mc extension not working since 4.7

Pascal Dag — 2011-12-20T19:43:56

Thanks a lot.
The "TinyCoreLinux" extension of MC 4.8.1 was posted on the extension server of this distro.
I loaded it.
It runs!

Thanks to all.

Pascal

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Von: Slava Zanko <slavazanko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>
Betreff: Re: mc extension not working since 4.7
An: "Pascal Dag" <pascaldagornet-LWAfsSFWpa4< at >public.gmane.org>
CC: "mc devel" <mc-devel-rDKQcyrBJuzYtjvyW6yDsg< at >public.gmane.org>
Datum: Sonntag, 18. Dezember, 2011 11:30 Uhr

On 10.12.2011 22:01, Pascal Dag wrote:


Please, try to use latest releases, such as 4.7.5.6 or 4.8.1

This know bug and was fixed in these releases.

mc extension not working since 4.7

Pascal Dag — 2011-12-10T19:01:33

hello,

with mc > 4.7, I have issues accessing my fritz.box.
A blank appear in the front of the USB storage name in the mc menue (see link of imagebin below).
so a scrolling in subdirectories with "return" key is not possible.
an access with the line command cd "usbstickname" is possible.
I personally evaluate this as a bug.
Could you please help? Is there a workaround or a setup for avoiding this?
my distro is tinycorelinux with mc 4.7.5 and 4.8.
my other distro ubuntu 10.04 with mc 4.7 is ok.
Pascal


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Pascal,

I do not know what is causing your problem,. mc in TC is a standard 
build without any hacks and I'm using it regularly as my standard ftp 
cliemt. I can make a 4.6 or 4.7.0 build hoping they are ok for you.

In the mean time you can ask help on mc mail list and also make a bug 
report at mc.

Regards... Béla

2011.12.07. 22:24 keltezéssel, Pascal Dag írta:
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Midnight Commander 4.7.5.6 (stable) released

Slava Zanko — 2011-12-15T08:35:52

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Hi all,

mc-4.7.5.6 now released (stable).

Download page: http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads?order=id&desc=1

Major changes and fixes since 4.7.5.5: (http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.7.5.6)

- - Core
  * Faster startup (#2637)

- - Editor
  * Lex/Flex sources (extension .l) handled by yxx.syntax file. Yacc/Bison syntax completed with all symbols (#1647)

- - Misc
  * A few useful additions to filehighlight.ini (#2646)

- - Fixes
  * Сan't compile on OpenIndiana (Solaris) (#2643)
  * In "Copy File" dialog the "preserve Attributes" checkbox is always unchecked for filesystems mounted with FUSE (#2254)
  * Save of some learned keys is broken (#2676)
  * Command line cursor misplaced after a resize in viewer/editor (#2678)
  * Editor word completion should ignore the current word (#2614)
  * Editor sometimes shows two dots instead of letter (#2372)
  * Viewer sometimes shows two dots instead of letter (#1730)
  * Viewer shows two dialogs when searcj hot found (#2677)
  * extfs: strange error message when opening a 7z file if p7zip is not installed (#2598)
  * Сannot navigate over spftp servers (#2634)
  * mc adds spaces at the beginning of all files/dirs on ftp servers (#2635)
  * mc does not preserve file mtime when copying over ssh (#2625)


Notice: this is a latest release in 4.7.5.x branch. Next releases will be have new base: 4.8.1.x. Be aware, please.


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Midnight Commender 4.8.1(latest) released

Slava Zanko — 2011-12-15T08:21:52

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Hi all,

mc-4.8.1 now released.

Download page: http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads?order=id&desc=1


Major changes and fixes since 4.8.0 (https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.1)

- - Core

  * Use posix_fallocate64() when copying files/moving to a new mount point (#2610)
  * Faster startup (#2637)
  * Support of extended mouse clicks beyond 223 (#2662)

- - VFS

  * Added exit point ("..") at the top of file list (after external panelization) (#275, #278)

- - Editor

  * Lex/Flex sources (extension .l) handled by yxx.syntax file. Yacc/Bison syntax completed with all symbols (#1647)
  * Updated syntax files:
     - lua

- - Misc

  * Updated skins:
     - sand256 (#2640)
     - xoria256 (#2641)
  * Added ability to move MC config files to specified place instead of multiple places in $HOME. (#2636)
  * Added configure option --with-homedir (default value: XDG) (#2636)
  * Respect traditional placement of user preferences on Mac OS X (#2658 as part of #2636)
  * A few useful additions to filehighlight.ini (#2646)

- - Fixes

  * Doesn't compile when using --disable-nls (#2639)
  * Сan't compile on OpenIndiana (Solaris) (#2643)
  * Moving content of bindings to mc.ext during 4.7 -> 4.8 upgrade breaks mc
  * Free space on filesystems >2TB is not displayed properly (#2338)
  * Not all errors are skipped after "Ignore all" choose (#71)
  * Input field in password mode is fully masked with asterisks (#2653)
  * In "Copy File" dialog the "preserve Attributes" checkbox is always unchecked for filesystems mounted with FUSE (#2254)
  * Command line cursor misplaced after a resize in viewer/editor (#2678)
  * Save of some learned keys is broken (#2676)
  * Editor sometimes shows two dots instead of letter (#2372)
  * Editor: word completion should ignore the current word (#2614)
  * Viewer sometimes shows two dots instead of letter (#1730)
  * Viewer shows two dialogs when searcj hot found (#2677)
  * Сannot navigate over spftp servers (#2634)
  * mc adds spaces at the beginning of all files/dirs on ftp servers (#2635)
  * VFS: broken SMB (#2652)
  * man page lies about mc.keymap (#2675)
  * mc does not preserve file mtime when copying over ssh (#2625)

Enjoy.

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Where to report bugs?

Andrew Savchenko — 2011-12-03T20:24:40

Hello,

I understand, that developers are busy people and have a lot of
things to do outside of development process, but are mc tickets being
monitored, or bugs should be reported here?

I opened a ticket #2676 a week ago with exact test case, found
a reason, bisected the commit causing this bug and wrote a
working patch (I have no problems with it so far). In a week there
was no comment at all, except Component name change.

Best regards,
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lzip support

Matias A. Fonzo — 2011-11-19T19:59:57

Hi there,

I've attached an enhancement for mc[1] to include support of lzip[2].
Please, developers can include it for the next version?.

References:

[1] Ticket #2673
[2] http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html

All the best,
Matias.


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issue with the MC in TinyCoreLinux

Pascal Dag — 2011-11-02T21:50:20

see http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11742.msg62607.html#msg62607
this issue is coming up newly.
is it a bug?
Pascal
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