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Re: which half are you in?



Jason Pepas wrote:
> 
> > displayed in the prompt. Another way is to do the delete
> > from midnight commander where you can see everything.
> 
> This was actually the source of my incident.  There are certain instances in
> midnight commander, where if you do a CTRL-O to drop back to a command line,
> it sometimes puts you in the wrong path (I think the problem was it put you
> in the path from which you start mc, not the path of your current file
> browsing window, but I can't remember exactly).
> 
> That's how I lost several hundred megabytes of mp3's.  From inside mc I
> thought I was one place, and when I CTRL-O'ed I was in another place.
> 
> I haven't noticed this bug lately, so it may have been fixed.

It's useful to have the current path displayed in
your bash prompt too.



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