Make Midnight Commander Exit to Its Current Directory

[Caldor]

It has annoyed me for a long time how Midnight Commander does not by default just exist to the directory you just moved to. That is often why I use Norton Commander clones of some kind, to browse directories fast and then obviously to also help do filemanagement overall.

But browsing to the folder I want to run commands in, quit Midnight Commander and then be in the folder where I launched MC from is pretty annoying.

So here is how to enable that feature.

Run the command

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nano ~/.profile

Then write the line (or copy it if you are using Putty):

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alias mc='source /usr/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh'

Restart Putty, or exit the shell and reload it on the MiSTer to have it use these new settings and it should now exit to the active folder

I hope this might be made default on the MiSTer. But... once you know how I guess its easy enough to change.

[Akuma]

or dont run the wrapper at all

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alias mc='f(){ local f=$(mktemp -u);$(which mc) -P $f "$@";cd $(cat $f);rm $f;};f'

If the -P option would just return the working directory on exit, alias mc='cd $(mc -P "$@")' would have been enough.

EDIT: almost forgot, I don't want it to be the default.

[Caldor]

The wrapper is there by default anyway. But I did suspect it could be done without the wrapper.

[Akuma]

The wrapper is there by default anyway. But I did suspect it could be done without the wrapper.

I saw, what a weird solution