#sh should start in the user's remote home dir, consistently with rsh/ssh

[narcan]

Hello,
I think its a good idea.

Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
"The default behaviour of the shell link virtual file system should
probably be consistent with the rsh/ssh programs behavior --
initially changing not to the remote filesystem root, but rather
to the remote home directory."

Original message:
​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276878

regards

Denis Briand

[slavazanko]

Hm... usually home dir placed by '/home/<user>' template. But may be placed in any other (such as /home/m/martines).

What do in this case? Be read /etc/passwd or if no homedir in default place, then open root of fs?

And, of course, need to be optional. :) Because this will change default behavior - someone will unhappy.

[slyfox]

Sorry, too many mostly useless options is not a good idea

We _could_ slightly change the meaning of a fish url. For example:

/#sh:127.0.0.1 will lead to chdir to $HOME
and
/#sh:127.0.0.1/ will lead to chdir to /

[ossi]

that's too magic.
i think an explicit use of ~ would be ok. in particular, this way it would be consistent for nested locations inside the home dir:

/#sh:localhost/~/stuff

anyway, you should investigate prior art (well, derived art, by all practical means, but still "they" are ahead of mc now): kde's kio (maybe have a look at krusader) and gnome's gvfs. in fact, you should try to get the ball rolling regarding a unified VFS scheme - xdg@….

[slyfox]

Replying to ossi:

that's too magic.
i think an explicit use of ~ would be ok. in particular, this way it would be consistent for nested locations inside the home dir:

/#sh:localhost/~/stuff

Yep you are right. '~' is more usable and simpler to implement on VFS layer (w/o hacks in higher layers)

anyway, you should investigate prior art (well, derived art, by all practical means, but still "they" are ahead of mc now): kde's kio (maybe have a look at krusader) and gnome's gvfs. in fact, you should try to get the ball rolling regarding a unified VFS scheme - xdg@….

Thanks. We are thinking about using GIO/GVFS, but noone tried to play with it yet.

[angel_il]

~ is bashism and cd ~ dont work in sh

[zaytsev]

Ilya, wanna have a go at it? Sounds sweet to implement it for 4.7.5.