Is it possible to open a new file from the user menu?

[mc-butler]

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This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4156
Reporter	psprint (sg44567@….com)

I would like to run ack/ag/grep on the current selection as the query. I want the search results to become contents of a new file inside mcedit. Is this possible to accomplish? I saw e.g.: the make macro that was opening a new mcedit instance for the make results, a sign that this might be not possible.

Can the user menu open a new buffer inside existing, currently running mcedit instance, and prefill it with some contents?

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Dec 14, 2020 at 5:31 UTC (comment 1)

• Status changed from new to closed
• Resolution set to wontfix
• Milestone Future Releases deleted

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