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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:03:03 +0100
From:      "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Editors are broken after update
Message-ID:  <op.wq7v7dykuwjkcr@freebsd>
In-Reply-To: <86pq0zsvlz.wl%hskuhra@eumx.net>
References:  <op.wq7byyojuwjkcr@freebsd> <86pq0zsvlz.wl%hskuhra@eumx.net>

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On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:12 +0100, Herbert J. Skuhra <hskuhra@eumx.net>  
wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100
> "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart
>> Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too?
>>
>> $ su -
>> Password:
>> root@freebsd:/root # mcedit
>>
>> Error
>> "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
>
> https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2754
>
> There is a patch that fixes this problem:
>
> <https://www.midnight-commander.org/changeset/529a7ba24c9da9fdb1df939ff0fe35c6d27e65df>;
>
> Maintainer CC'ed.

I didn't notice that it does run with an exiting file-name, but it does

$ mcedit /etc/fstab

is ok.

It's also ok for a file that doesn't exist

$ mcedit foo

this didn't work before I deleted the mc contend in /home/user_name.

Thank you!



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