id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 2942 External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails ackalker mooffie "What version of Midnight Commander is used? $ LC_MESSAGES=C mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.6 Built with GLib 2.32.4 Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database With builtin Editor With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish, smbfs Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64; What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create a test HTML file (content doesn't matter): $ touch /tmp/t.html 2. In Midnight Commander, select Command -> External Panelize 3. as Other Command / Command, enter: echo /tmp/t.html 4. In the panelized listing, select the file /tmp/t.html and press Enter to open it. What is the expected output? The HTML file should open in my webbrowser What do you see instead? (using PCManFM) an Error popup saying ""No such file or directory"". After editing the extension file to change the html / open action, I found that Midnight Commander is trying to open the file ${HOME}/tmp/t.html instead of /tmp/html. Note. Viewing and editing files with absolute paths in External panelize works without problems." defect closed minor 4.8.20 mc-core master fixed 3767 merged committed-master