internal cd command is very limited

[narcan]

Hello,
This is a Debian whislist bug:
​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520029

Thank you

Denis Briand

Robert Luberda wrote:
"The internal cd command is very limited. It doesn't support %
substitutions, doesn't expands variables nor output of external commands
It's impossible to do for example:
cd %D
cd TES* (if only one dir matches the wildcard)
cd /bin/pwd
cd $SOMEVAR

cd somedir

echo fail

All of the above commands do work in any normal shell, but not in mc.
However after defining the follwing alias in bash
alias ccd='cd'
I can use ccd %D', ccd $VAR' etc. in mc.

I wish this could be possible without the alias - either support for
such an advanced features could be added to mc, or mc could provide a
way to disable the internal cd in favour of the shell built-in one."

[iNode]

cd $somevar works for me (if somevar was defined before mc starts)
But I confirm other cases. Thanks for request.