Ticket #2452 (reopened defect)

Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

Doesn't save "Verbose operation" file operation option

Reported by: nixtrian Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Future Releases
Component: mc-tty Version: master
Keywords: settings save Verbose operation removed Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Branch state: no branch Votes for changeset:

Description

I launch mc, go into the "Options"/"Configuration" menu, put a marker on the "Verbose operation", then press save ("auto save setup" is marked). When I launch MC next time and go to "Options"/"Configuration" menu — there is no "Verbose operation" marker.

I tried to "rm -rf ~/.mc", there was no result.

$ LANG=C mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.5-pre1-16-g97ae800
Built with GLib 2.26.1
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

Change History

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by nixtrian

There is redetermination: it saves settings well, but doesn't load it next start and rewrites in to default next shutdown.

comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

What about other settings?

comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 ; follow-up: ↓ 4 Changed 13 years ago by nixtrian

Replying to andrew_b:

What about other settings?

Other settings (I tested few) saving and loading normally

I am also tried to turn off autosave, then edited the ~/.mc/ini, but "Verbose operation" wasn't loaded.

comment:4 in reply to: ↑ 3 ; follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

Replying to nixtrian:

Replying to andrew_b:

What about other settings?

Other settings (I tested few) saving and loading normally

Looks like you terminal is slow. On slow terminal, the Verbose option is forced set to 0. This can occurs in 2 cases:
1) you launch mc with -s/--slow option;
2) S-Lang (or NCurses) determines that the output speed (the baud rate) of your terminal is less than 9600 bps.

comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 ; follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 13 years ago by nixtrian

Replying to andrew_b:

Replying to nixtrian:

Replying to andrew_b:

What about other settings?

Other settings (I tested few) saving and loading normally

Looks like you terminal is slow. On slow terminal, the Verbose option is forced set to 0. This can occurs in 2 cases:
1) you launch mc with -s/--slow option;
2) S-Lang (or NCurses) determines that the output speed (the baud rate) of your terminal is less than 9600 bps.

I launch mc without -s/--slow option;
I use urxvt terminal with speed 4000000 baud (as "stty -a" says);

comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 13 years ago by nixtrian

I've downgraded urxvt now to 9.07 version. The MC works fine in it (saves and loads the subj option well). And stty says that terminal speed is 38400 bps. So maybe it is an urxvt bug.

comment:7 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Keywords settings save Verbose operation removed
  • Version master deleted
  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Milestone 4.8 deleted

OK. Closed.

comment:8 Changed 13 years ago by nixtrian

  • Status changed from closed to reopened
  • Keywords settings save Verbose operation removed added
  • Version set to master
  • Resolution invalid deleted
  • Milestone set to 4.8

I think I should reopen this bug, cause I talked to urxvt developers and they confirmed the urxvt baudrate is 4000000.

I modified the midnight.c a bit (insert "printf("%i", tty_baudrate ());" before tty_baudrate check) to see what tty_baudrate returns and it returns "0" on the recent urxvt. So this is mc/slang bug (because "stty" returns the correct value (4000000) ).

comment:9 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

  • Status changed from reopened to closed
  • Resolution set to invalid

OK.

    404 int
    405 tty_baudrate (void)
    406 {
    407     return SLang_TT_Baud_Rate;
    408 }

Since MC gets baud rate directly from S-Lang, I guess, this is bug of S-Lang. Please send a bugreport to S-Lang developer.

Would you build MC with NCurses and show the result here? Thanks!

comment:10 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

  • Status changed from closed to reopened
  • Resolution invalid deleted

comment:11 follow-up: ↓ 12 Changed 13 years ago by vsu

Reported the problem and the patch for S-Lang to the slang-users-l mailing list:

http://mailman.jedsoft.org/pipermail/slang-users-l/2011/000722.html

Applying this patch to S-Lang fixes the mc+urxvt problem for me.

comment:12 in reply to: ↑ 11 ; follow-up: ↓ 13 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

  • Status changed from reopened to closed
  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Version master deleted
  • Component changed from mc-core to mc-tty
  • Milestone 4.8 deleted

Cool! Thanks!

Actually, this is not mc bug. Closed.

comment:13 in reply to: ↑ 12 Changed 13 years ago by fairplay

  • Status changed from closed to reopened
  • Resolution invalid deleted

Replying to andrew_b:

Cool! Thanks!

Actually, this is not mc bug. Closed.

It's definitely a mc bug, cause you should not turn off the verbose mode automatically on slow terminals, but you should leave it as an option.

Last edited 13 years ago by fairplay (previous) (diff)

comment:14 Changed 12 years ago by c0da

  • Branch state set to no branch

+1 for disabling the automatic non-verbose mode
people with slow terminals should be able to add -s to their command line. there is no option to force verbose mode for those with urxvt (and maybe other terminals)

this problem also exists in the ncurses version of mc:

$ mc --version
GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.5.2
Built with GLib 2.28.8
Using the ncurses library
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

$ set | grep TERM
COLORTERM=rxvt
TERM=xterm

$ stty
speed 4000000 baud; line = 0;

$ ncurses5-config --version
5.7.20081102

comment:15 Changed 12 years ago by c0da

gdb tells me that tty_baudrate () == -1
that is less than 9600 but a invalid value in my opinion, therefore this should not cause mc on modern systems to fallback to minimal functionality.

the issue can be solved with this patch. you have to enable verbose mode when it was disabled with a unpatched version.

diff --git a/src/filemanager/midnight.c b/src/filemanager/midnight.c
index c92fe53..2019ac8 100644
--- a/src/filemanager/midnight.c
+++ b/src/filemanager/midnight.c
@@ -833,8 +833,7 @@ setup_mc (void)
     if (mc_global.tty.use_subshell)
         add_select_channel (mc_global.tty.subshell_pty, load_prompt, 0);
 #endif /* !HAVE_SUBSHELL_SUPPORT */
-
-    if ((tty_baudrate () < 9600) || mc_global.tty.slow_terminal)
+    if ((tty_baudrate () > 0 && tty_baudrate () < 9600) || mc_global.tty.slow_terminal)
         verbose = 0;
 }

comment:16 Changed 12 years ago by andrew_b

  • Version set to master
  • Milestone set to Future Releases

comment:17 Changed 12 years ago by selecao

I found a solution:

stty 115200

just before starting mc (or somewhere in your scripts)

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