[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#592208: Bug#592208: Bug#592208: mc: Can't open files for edit (F4) with space in filenames

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello Yury V. Zaytsev,

Am 2010-08-09 13:53:51, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 11:57 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> 
> > Maybe Debian should drop the thing with "mcedit-debian"?
> 
> This is actually something I don't understand either. 
> 
> It was added by Adam Byrtek <alpha at debian.org> sometime at the beginning
> of the century (even before the package source got into a source control
> system) and until now, nobody run into this bug.
> 
> My guess is that maybe the alternatives system at that time didn't
> accept symlinks as valid editors, so he decided to create a wrapper
> instead to work around this problem.
> 
> Whether it's true or not and if it is still needed or not I have no
> clue. This would be a subject of an investigation on its own...

I have now tried it by changing the configs of "mc"
from "mcedit-debian" to "mcedit" and it just works...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack

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