directories opening in the wrong panel

[tempUser]

$ mc --help

mc [OPTION...] [+number] [this_dir] [other_panel_dir]

According to this, if i do, say

$ mc / /tmp

/ should open in the left pane, and /tmp should open in the right pane. But with the latest version, they are opening in the opposite panes, i.e., the one which should open in the left pane is opening in the right, and vice versa.

$ LC_MESSAGES=C mc -V

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.3
Built with GLib 2.30.2
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, fish, smbfs
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 32; void *: 32; size_t: 32; off_t: 64;

$ mc --configure-options

'--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--enable-background' '--enable-charset' '--enable-largefile' '--with-edit' '--with-gpm-mouse' '--with-mmap' '--enable-vfs-smb' '--with-screen=slang' '--with-subshell' '--with-vfs' '--with-x' '--without-debug' '--without-gnome' '--without-included-gettext' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 'CFLAGS=-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu'

[andrew_b]

Cannot confirm. Works as expected for me.

[angel_il]

i can't reproduce...

[tempUser]

Hmm.. i backed up panels.ini, and launched mc again, and this time it worked fine. Seems like a setting there was causing this problem.

I have attached a diff file, showing the difference between the previous panels.ini file, and a fresh one.

[andrew_b]

Thanks!

@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ user_status3=half type name | size | per
 user_mini_status=0
 
 [Dirs]
-current_is_left=0
-other_dir=/home/user
+current_is_left=1
+other_dir=/home/user/downloads

current_is_left is the main difference. First argument is applied to the current panel, but should to left one.

[andrew_b]

Branch: 2783_dir_panel_order (parent: master).
changeset:eb5f9e05432b3adab980ab4a4778992e11b299e3

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [4e8faef03e82927796e6b194d22a6990a1e50656].
Merged to 4.8.1-stable: [fbbd744c9ef1e29a5a5b8fe3f66ce5bedc93c89f]

[andrew_b]

When right panel is active, panel paths are swapped at each mc start.

How to reproduce.

1. Goto ~. Run mc. Enable autosave panels setup before exit. Save options.
2. Open ~ dir in the left panel, / in the right one. Make right panel active.
3. Close mc.
4. With mc-wrapper, following is performed:
   1. Run mc. Now ~ in the right panel, / in the left one.
   2. Close mc.
   3. Run mc. Now ~ in the left panel again, / in the right one.
   4. and so on.
5. Without mc-wrapper, following is performed:
   1. Run mc. Now ~ in both panels.

Expected behavior with current_is_left=false

1. if mc start as mc dir dir2, dir1 is opened in the left panel, dir2 in the right one.
2. if mc starts as mc (without dir1 and dir2), active (right) panel contains working directory, other (left) one contains other_dir from panel.ini.
3. if mc start as mc dir1, dir1 is opened in the left panel, right panel contains working directory.

[andrew_b]

Branch: 2783_panel_dir_fix (parent: master).
changeset:0db03f65703010ae0d518391eff2f47b49fd4b7e

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [48bd62f9bcb5654a80619d62529dd1fa8dc0768a].
Merged to 4.8.1-stable: [cb261be463b5a2d4f470ba0e492c1dc954ee5a6d].