Ticket #3748 (new enhancement)
mksh as a subshell
| Reported by: | gloomyquazar | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | Future Releases |
| Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | subshell mksh | Cc: | |
| Blocked By: | #3692 | Blocking: | |
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
Hello.
On my desktop and notebook I use FreeBSD together with mksh, which I like for it's small size, robustness, security... Recently I got to know that MC supports only bash, (t)csh, zsh and something else as main shells, hence my mksh doesn't work as a subshell, I can't just switch with Ctrl+O and work there, so I had to postpone using MC for now. Is there a way to add mksh for supported shells? Without a subshell working in MC gets very unconvenient.
With regards,
Sergey P.
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comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 6 years ago by andrew_b
- Blocked By 3692 added
- Milestone changed from 4.8.19 to Future Releases
Replying to gloomyquazar:
It would be nice to also add support for general Bourne /bin/sh as a subshell.
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by zaytsev
If mksh has an equivalent of precmd (which, I think, it does) and you can cook up a patch to support it that is not impossible.
comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by gloomyquazar
Maybe the function like this will do?
function precmd {
<put something here>
}
PS1="$(precmd) $PS1 "
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by zaytsev
As I said, if you manage to provide a clean working patch, we might eventually get it in.
It would be nice to also add support for general Bourne /bin/sh as a subshell.