editor_option_save_position=true in ~/.config/mc/ini doesn't work

[apio]

When i reopen file for edit, cursor is in the begin of the file instead it old place.

admin1c@gsu1cserver:~$ LC_MESSAGES=C mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.24
Built with GLib 2.56.4
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor and Aspell support
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
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

admin1c@gsu1cserver:~$ LC_MESSAGES=C mc -F
Home directory: /home/admin1c
Profile root directory: /home/admin1c

[System data]
    Config directory: /etc/mc/
    Data directory:   /usr/share/mc/
    File extension handlers: /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/
    VFS plugins and scripts: /usr/lib/mc/
        extfs.d:        /usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/
        fish:           /usr/lib/mc/fish/

[User data]
    Config directory: /home/admin1c/.config/mc/
    Data directory:   /home/admin1c/.local/share/mc/
        skins:          /home/admin1c/.local/share/mc/skins/
        extfs.d:        /home/admin1c/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
        fish:           /home/admin1c/.local/share/mc/fish/
        mcedit macros:  /home/admin1c/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
        mcedit external macros: /home/admin1c/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*
    Cache directory:  /home/admin1c/.cache/mc/

admin1c@gsu1cserver:~$ mc --configure-options
 '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--srcdir=.' '--disable-maintainer-mode' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-silent-rules' '--with-x' '--with-screen=slang' '--enable-aspell' '--disable-rpath' '--disable-static' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/mc-4.8.24=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'

[andrew_b]

Cannot confirm. Works fine for me for years.

[andrew_b]

What is value of filepos_max_saved_entries?

[apio]

Thankyou for atention.

filepos_max_saved_entries=1024

[andrew_b]

Please show the output of

ls -l ~/.config/mc  ~/.local/share/mc ~/.cache/mc

[apio]

Thank You very much for your diagnostic!!!

admin1c@gsu1cserver:~$ ls -l ~/.config/mc ~/.local/share/mc ~/.cache/mc
/home/admin1c/.cache/mc:
итого 8
drwx------ 2 root    root    4096 дек  2 09:28 mcedit
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin1c admin1c   35 апр 24 20:28 Tree

/home/admin1c/.config/mc:
итого 16
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin1c grp1cv8   32 янв  9 08:37 hotlist
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin1c grp1cv8    0 янв  9 08:37 hotlist.bak
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin1c admin1c 3765 апр 24 20:31 ini
drwx------ 2 admin1c admin1c 4096 дек  2 09:28 mcedit
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin1c admin1c  823 апр 24 20:31 panels.ini

/home/admin1c/.local/share/mc:
итого 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root     135 янв 21 13:33 filepos
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin1c grp1cv8  135 апр 24 20:32 filepos.tmp
-rw------- 1 admin1c admin1c 4391 апр 24 20:32 history
drwx------ 2 admin1c admin1c 4096 янв 26 21:33 mcedit

Some files owned by root. I fixed it and save cursor position is work. Its fine!!!

[andrew_b]

Always use su - not just su to switch to root:

​https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7013/why-do-we-use-su-and-not-just-su (in English)
​https://www.altlinux.org/Su (in Russian)