DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Midnight Commander

or avoid the wrapper by exporting EDITOR=scite from .xinitrc and EDITOR=nano from .bash_profile

cbagger's idea is less likely to fail, though, in a situation where you may source .bash_profile while in X.

Hi,

I made the above changes, it works great! However, even before I made these changes, I was only able to use Midnight Commander as root. If I open it up under the user account it says:

Hotlist Load

was unable to write ~/.mc/hotlist file, your old hotlist entries were not deleted.

So I deleted the .mc/hotlist file all together, and I still get the same error, but it works fine from root. Any Ideas?

Quote (ke4nt1 @ Nov. 03 2004,15:36)

Curious to know which one you will pick?
Wondering if that decision would make a good poll ?
( as to which editor everyone would pick for mc use )

If it´s usefull for the poll, now I tried Nano and i´m happy with it.

Nassho

Quote (caulktel @ Nov. 04 2004,10:28)

If you launched mc as root from the menu, what version of DSL are you using? This was a menu bug which was fixed in version 0.8.0 (or maybe 0.7.3?).

If you launch mc from console using "sudo mc" before running it as a regular user, your configs are created with root ownership and can not be viewed/modified as regular user.

You can avoid this trouble in three ways:
1) Don't launch mc from console with "sudo mc" until after mc has been run once as normal user.
2) Use the fluxbox menu to launch mc (DSL 0.8.0+).
3) From console, use "sudo su - -c mc" to start mc as root instead of just "sudo mc". This creates the root mc configs in /root instead of /home/dsl.

i generally use scite, nano is good for editing config files that prevent x from going though lol

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