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""" You need to take some steps to make MC to exit in the current directory visible on the screen. One way is to use alias such as alias mc='mc -P "/tmp/mc-$US

""" You need to take some steps to make MC to exit in the current directory visible on the screen. One way is to use alias such as alias mc='mc -P "/tmp/mc-$USER/mc.pwd.$$"; cd `cat /tmp/mc-$USER/mc.pwd.$$`; rm /tmp/mc-$USER/*' The other is to use a supplied with mc more generic script alias mc='. /usr/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh' One of the most common problems with mc is incorrect display of pseudo-graphical characters, which spoils borders on the panels and while this defect does not affect functionality, is very unpleasant aesthetically. See Midnight commander does not display pseudo-graphic characters properly for more information. You can use option -a to use regular characters instead and in most cases this is an adequate solution. """ Hell, no. I am glad I learned vim and I am still using it a lot but I am not going down another rabbit hole where easy and simple things are ... contorted. And I don't want to take care about another configuration file in order to feel at home. I just want sane defaults, simple things made easy and complex task possible. What I like about vim is that the modal editing paradigm. All the rest could be better and whenever Neovim or Helix or Amp or Onivim or any other terminal editor/ide is 1.0, I'll jump ship. Navigating files with the command line is not that complicated imho. I don't blame Vim, maybe it was not meant to be an IDE. Maybe we need a terminal IDE.

unilynx 5y ago
You don't need to set up that alias. I'm guessing it's a holdover from the DOS days with Norton commander where you would launch nc just to quickly navigate to a directory and then quit it, which can't easily be done on Unix. (the current drive/directory was global state in DOS - it even recorded the current directory per drive, but that may only have been command.com doing that)
tinus_hn 5y ago
Note that this kind of scripts is a security issue if the system does not implement per-user tmp directories, especially if it regularly cleans the /tmp directory. Which this script appears to expect.

unilynx 5y ago

You don't need to set up that alias. I'm guessing it's a holdover from the DOS days with Norton commander where you would launch nc just to quickly navigate to a directory and then quit it, which can't easily be done on Unix. (the current drive/directory was global state in DOS - it even recorded the current directory per drive, but that may only have been command.com doing that)

tinus_hn 5y ago

Note that this kind of scripts is a security issue if the system does not implement per-user tmp directories, especially if it regularly cleans the /tmp directory. Which this script appears to expect.