Re: Release emelFM2 0.5.1

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:07:33 -0400
Grégory SCHMITT <gy.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:28:09 +0200,
> Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> > Hello Grégory, and thanks for the suggestions.
> > 
> > 2009/3/28 Grégory SCHMITT <gy.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > In your case, what does a "mount" alias do such as this one ?
> > >
> > > "> mount \2 && cd \2'"
> > >
> > I defined this alias for `mount', and this is what I get in the
> > output pane.
> > sh>mount "/mnt/myflash" && cd "/mnt/myflash"  (27601)
> > sh>mount "/mnt/myflash" && cd "/mnt/myflash" (27601) returned '0'
> > 
> > However, there was no action in the panes. The command was executed,
> > but neither pane changed directory.
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Found it:
> 
> Define mount as "> mount \2 ; cd \2".
> 
> I'm a bit confused though as of why && didn't work. If mount fails,
> emelfm2 will try to go to \2 which may not exist then. && was here to
> guarantee that mount was successful.

See previous post.

> 
> Tom, if you happen to read this, I've also tried to remove the gt sign,
> as in "mount \2 && cd \2" and was warned that only root can do that,
> although my volume has the explicit 'user' option in the fstab and
> permissions are correctly set.

The '>' is redundant (apart from eliminating a scan of the command text), as 
the "&&" will send the command to an external shell anyway.

Can't check ATM how your warning was triggered, but it sounds like something 
external to e2.

Regards
Tom


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