Subshell does not work

[Ejsstiil]

When Ctrl+O is pressed the panels hide but you can't type anything in the subshell - there is no a subshell. Is this feature supported on the Windows build?
Tested in wt, powershell, cmd

[adamyg]

subshell is not enabled/suitable under a windows console.

[Ejsstiil]

Strange assumption as this is the crucial thing about MC. The benefit of having a subshell under mc is obvious. Without that it is not the mc as we knows it(linux). Could you please add the support of it but leave it disabled by default?

[adamyg]

Sharing the window's console is problematic, enabling sub-shell requires specific job and terminal control features of the underlying terminal, plus the sub-shell command(s) need to be well behaved console application's. Window's 10 Pseudo Console/ConPTY may provide a solution (winxsh), only with reasonable devl effort.

[Ejsstiil]

I understand, that's bad news... Would be possible to do it in some alternative way - that the mcwin will launches two consoles so one will be consumed by mcwin and the second one would be brought-up by ctrl+o ? The only thing would be just to maintain the current pwd in both?
Just thoughts.

[adamyg]

would need to re-implement: src/subshell/common.c, using ConPTY for the sub-shell

[kjdro]

how about using git bash ?
i can run mc from there

[adamyg]

Still considering, effort for a feature i generally disable under Linux and other hosts.
Tabbed terminal as alt?

[AndreKR]

Still considering, effort for a feature i generally disable under Linux and other hosts.

Then what do you even use mc for? I generally use it to navigate to the directory where I want to execute commands. You use it for file operations (copy, move) only?

[AndreKR]

Here's an idea that should be quick(er) to implement: There is already a working command prompt if you have it enabled (Options > Layout > Command prompt). Maybe when it's disabled (which is necessary to enable quick navigation by typing) on Ctrl+O you could show that same command line?