C-o in GNU MC and mintty/rxvt issue?

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 2010.05.12 22:26, d.sastre.medina@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:36:19PM +0300, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>> On 2010.05.12 16:11, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>>> Recently I decide switch from Far/Total Commander to GNU MC.
>>> I use Cygwin 1.7.1.
>>> MC is look beauty with mintty but I have issue:
>>>
>>> 3. Second shell not available.
>>>
>> I partially resolve all problem.
>> It seems by default Cygwin MC do not use subshell.
>> I run mc --subshell and all symptom goes out!
>
> Hello,
>
> You could also try another approach: rebuilding from the distributed sources,
> and modifying mc-4.6.1-2.sh to enable subshell:
>
> $ diff -u mc-4.6.1-2.sh.orig mc-4.6.1-2.sh
> --- mc-4.6.1-2.sh.orig  2010-05-12 21:14:32.879507800 +0200
> +++ mc-4.6.1-2.sh       2010-05-12 21:15:30.443951800 +0200
> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
>     --with-gpm-mouse=no \
>     --with-screen=ncurses \
>     --with-ext2undel=no \
> -  --with-subshell=optional \
> +  --with-subshell=yes \
>     --with-glib12 )
>   }
>   reconf() {
>
Thanks for suggestion.

I don't understand why MC was not already built with subshell support
by default in Cygwin?

As I see only inconveniences appear without subshell.


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