> Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc?

Yes, and there was a kind of dispute about this. The gist of it can be found in this ticket: https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187

EDIT: Interesting read also about the pros and cons of Slang2 as scripting language, some history and the job of maintaining mc in general …

Interesting read, thank you.

So there is also a plugin system in Lua waiting, it just needs someone to care for it. The S-lang plugin system will not go in mc itself since they prefer to get rid of S-lang alltogether, in favor of ncurses as screen library. This same author had a Python plugin system first, but scrapped it in favor of this S-lang plugin system.

And yes, I can imagine they are looking more for people doing maintenance instead of innovators. They do seem genuine nice guys though.

This sort of language seems a bit uncalled for to me

> gee, look - a 3rd contender for a scripting integration ... and the 2nd from you, heh. i guess you're retracting #4136 then?

> how does this compare in size with moofie's lua stuff? that's what the integration question mostly hinges on, i think.

> according to trac's diff view, the indentation in the patch is somewhat random. how did you even manage to do that ...? :}

>> Am I doing something wrong?

> yes - not doing enough meditation. :D no, seriously, you need patience. a lot of it.

He also has MC with Python scripting: https://github.com/psprint/mc

Edit: and is submitting at least some code upstream e.g. https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4160