Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt

[Jon TURNEY]

On 09/07/2010 07:58, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- Ven 9/7/10, Larry Hall  ha scritto:
>
>> On 7/8/2010 10:35 PM, Peter Farley
>> wrote:
>>> I don't know if this is the right place to ask this
>> question, but if it is
>>> not please advise me where to send it.
>>>
>>> Midnight Commander exits with F10, and in a native
>> bash window or rxvt F10
>>> exits to the last directory viewed.  In an xterm
>> though, it exits to the
>>> original directory from which MC was started.
>>>
>
> on my Win-XP SP2 under cygwin/X
> MC with F10 exits in the current directory
>
> Peter,
> as mc is an alias
> alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
>
> I guess that under X this wrapper is working
> differently than under console

Perhaps more likely, the alias isn't setup by the shell init scripts under 
xterm because of the way the xterm was started (which the OP hasn't said) (but 
is being setup for cmd.exe or rxvt)

Note that it's impossible for mc to change the current directory of the parent 
shell without this alias.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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