From: Alfie Costa (agcosta@gis.net)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 01:32:54 CEST
On 21 Jun 2000, at 10:00, Michele Andreoli <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk> wrote:
> > 1) Edit=%var{EDITOR:mc -e} %f # this launches Cooledit
>
> Sorry, Alfie: there are a lot of line in mc.ext related to EDITOR.
> Please, explain me what I've to change.
Change the last line that says 'EDITOR'; this is in the last part of 'mc.ext',
at the end, the finish, the limit, where it was written:
<snip>
# Default target for anything not described above
default/*
Open=
View=%view{ascii}
Edit=%var{EDITOR:vi} %f # <<< *** Change here ****
Drop=
Icon=plain.xpm
Title=%p
<snip>
In my 'mc.ext', (which may be different), that is line #366 out of a total of
369 lines. Once changed, it looks like:
<snip>
# Default target for anything not described above
default/*
Open=
View=%view{ascii}
Edit=%var{EDITOR:mc -e} %f # <<< *** Presto ****
Drop=
Icon=plain.xpm
Title=%p
<snip>
...thus, if there is no variable named $EDITOR, this new code will start
Cooledit when the user hits F4.
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Note for scripting buffs: the syntax for 'mc.ext' is similar to that of
'/bin/ash' -- similar, but not exactly the same. In 'ash' you'd do:
${EDITOR:-"mc -e"} # note the first hyphen or '-'...
...but in 'mc.ext' it is:
%var{EDITOR:mc -e} # no hyphen after the colon or ':' ...
Why they're different, or rather why 'mc.ext' doesn't conform to the standard
Bourne Shell syntax, is hard to say. It would be simpler if both were the
same. Maybe the author forgot, or just wanted to save a byte.
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