[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#777117: mc: mcedit starts mc instead of editor

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.13-3
Severity: important

I just tried to run 'mcedit somefile' (where “somefile” exists)
on a sid system. Instead, mc opened. I re-tried on a user with
clean $HOME directory (I used the postgres user ☺), and the same,
so my mc config (which enables using the external editor) is not
at fault.

mcedit is a nice editor for Unix beginners who know the DOS world
already, so it ought to be callable. Plus, it registers as an
editor alternative, so it ought to work…

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.42.12-1
ii  libc6         2.19-14
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.42.1-1
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-6.1+b2
ii  libslang2     2.3.0-2
ii  libssh2-1     1.4.3-4
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.13-3

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.58
ii  perl          5.20.1-5
ii  unzip         6.0-16

Versions of packages mc suggests:
ii  arj                  3.10.22-12
ii  bzip2                1.0.6-7+b2
pn  dbview               <none>
pn  djvulibre-bin        <none>
ii  file                 1:5.22+15-1
pn  genisoimage          <none>
pn  gv                   <none>
ii  imagemagick          8:6.8.9.9-5
pn  links | w3m | lynx   <none>
ii  mupdf [pdf-viewer]   1.6-1
pn  odt2txt              <none>
ii  okular [pdf-viewer]  4:4.14.2-2
ii  poppler-utils        0.26.5-2
ii  python               2.7.8-3
pn  python-boto          <none>
ii  python-tz            2012c+dfsg-0.1
ii  texlive-binaries     2014.20140926.35254-6
ii  zip                  3.0-8

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