svn commit: r456456 - head/misc/mc

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 16 10:33:48 UTC 2017


On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 09:44:33AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 05:42:53AM +0000, Ben Woods wrote:
> > New Revision: 456456
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/456456
> > 
> > Log:
> >   misc/mc: Update to 4.8.20
> 
> This version also suffers from notoriously known "screen contents not
> preserved (or restored) when hiding/showing panels with Ctrl-O" bug.
> 
> Last time the bug was fixed (after it resurfaced again) in r374372;
> mc(1) behaves correctly as of version 4.8.14 on 8.4-STABLE here.  I'll
> try to find one when it got broken again but that may take some time.

It got broken with r414983 (r414982 behaves correctly), that's 19 months
ago!  It's surprising that the bug survived unfixed for such a long time.

Shall I file a PR for that, or you'd rather take care of it without the
needless bureaucracy Ben?

./danfe

P.S.  Ironically, older versions have another annoying bug: typing in
commands with options (that is, typing dash aka minus) is impossible
because dash is treated as "unselect" command. *facepalm*


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