Bug 608560

Summary:	The -e argument in mc does not work.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	bugzilla.redhat.com
Component:	mc	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	dvlasenk, jnovy, pahan, pknirsch, slavazanko
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Description bugzilla.redhat.com 2010-06-28 06:26:58 UTC

Description of problem: 
Using mc with the -e argument, such as "mc -e somefile" brings you to the file browser instead of the editing interface even though the file exists in the current directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.7.2

How reproducible:
Happens every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a terminal (through X or a tty)
2. Run mc -e somefile where somefile is an existing file (either exact or relative path)
  
Actual results:
mc opens up to the file browser as if you ran mc with no arguments

Expected results:
mc should open up the file editor as is the case when you run "mcedit somefile"

Additional info:

Comment 1 Slava Zanko 2010-06-28 09:51:23 UTC

Thanks for bugreport. This was fixed in http://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2187

Jindrich, you may cherry-pick needed patch by command:

git diff  15fe01a..e14ddbd >mc-e.patch

and add it to exists 4.7.2 src.rpm. 

Or just wait for next release (4.7.3 will released near the 5'th of July)

Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2010-06-28 10:25:08 UTC

Slava, thanks for the quick action :)

I will wait for the next release and release update so that we can benefit from more fixes in 4.7.3. ... and I don't need to release updates twice ;)

Comment 3 bugzilla.redhat.com 2010-07-13 21:39:49 UTC

Any ETA on this?  It's hard to get used to using mcedit instead of mc -e after using mc -e for so many years. :-P

Comment 4 Jindrich Novy 2010-07-14 05:19:36 UTC

It is fixed by this update:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mc-4.7.3-1.fc13

Just give it a positive karma so that it is pushed to stable repositories ASAP :)