How to convince mc not to change command prompt?

Question

linux

The devil pulled me to update mc to 4.8.18. Before that it was 4/8/15. He respected the settings in .cshrc, in particular prompt. 4.8.18 scores on prompt and stupidly drives its value there. Is there a way to fix this behavior without editing the sources and rolling back to 4.8.15?

Answer 1

Judging by the fact that no one answered, everyone is either as usual, or everyone is satisfied with this behavior. In general, I did a little analysis. Starting from version 4.8.16, mc has done a great job with subshell. But they fixed it only for bash - that is, the settings of the PS1 variable from .bashrc are read and prompt is set as it should. But for tcsh, they didn’t find anything better, how to enter a stupid replacement for prompt with what they came up with themselves and so that it doesn’t change, so far you have to patch the source code:

--- src/subshell/common.c    2017-03-05 00:51:38.000000000 +0700
+++ src/subshell/common-new.c        2017-03-10 18:57:21.592259025 +0700
@@ -864,7 +864,6 @@
     case SHELL_TCSH:
         g_snprintf (precmd, buff_size,
                     "set echo_style=both; "
-                    "set prompt='%%[email protected]%%m:%%~%%# '; "
                     "alias precmd 'echo $cwd:q >>%s; kill -STOP $$'\n", tcsh_fifo);
         break;

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