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3564	mc is slow to start	imre84		"$ LC_MESSAGES=C mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.14
Built with GLib 2.42.2
Using the ncurses library
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

$ LC_MESSAGES=C mc -F
Root directory: /home/imi

[System data]
    Config directory: /etc/mc/
    Data directory:   /usr/share/mc/
    File extension handlers: /usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/
    VFS plugins and scripts: /usr/libexec/mc/
	extfs.d:        /usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/
	fish:           /usr/libexec/mc/fish/

[User data]
    Config directory: /home/imi/.config/mc/
    Data directory:   /home/imi/.local/share/mc/
	skins:          /home/imi/.local/share/mc/skins/
	extfs.d:        /home/imi/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/
	fish:           /home/imi/.local/share/mc/fish/
	mcedit macros:  /home/imi/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
	mcedit external macros: /home/imi/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/macro.*
    Cache directory:  /home/imi/.cache/mc/

$ mc --configure-options
 '--prefix=/usr' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--disable-silent-rules' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--enable-nls' '--enable-vfs' '--enable-vfs-undelfs' '--enable-charset' '--with-x' '--disable-vfs-smb' '--disable-vfs-sftp' '--enable-aspell' '--with-gpm-mouse' '--with-screen=ncurses' '--with-internal-edit' '--disable-mclib' '--disable-tests' '--with-homedir=XDG' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib64/pkgconfig'

mc used to start quickly :) ... until five minutes ago :( ... but I know what changes I made in that five minutes :)

here's the 3 lines I appended to my /etc/bash/bashrc file:
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups
shopt -s histappend
export PROMPT_COMMAND=""history -n; history -w; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND""

as a test I just commented out those to test if really those three lines cause the problem, once they commented out mc starts quickly again (in a newly started shell). when I put those back in, mc starts slowly again.

the final values of the relevant environment variables:

$ echo ""$HISTCONTROL""
ignoredups:erasedups
$ echo ""$PROMPT_COMMAND""
history -n; history -w; history -c; history -r; 
$ shopt
autocd         	off
cdable_vars    	off
cdspell        	off
checkhash      	off
checkjobs      	off
checkwinsize   	on
cmdhist        	on
compat31       	off
compat32       	off
compat40       	off
compat41       	off
compat42       	off
complete_fullquote	on
direxpand      	off
dirspell       	off
dotglob        	off
execfail       	off
expand_aliases 	on
extdebug       	off
extglob        	on
extquote       	on
failglob       	off
force_fignore  	on
globstar       	off
globasciiranges	off
gnu_errfmt     	off
histappend     	on
histreedit     	off
histverify     	off
hostcomplete   	off
huponexit      	off
interactive_comments	on
lastpipe       	off
lithist        	off
login_shell    	off
mailwarn       	off
no_empty_cmd_completion	on
nocaseglob     	off
nocasematch    	off
nullglob       	off
progcomp       	on
promptvars     	on
restricted_shell	off
shift_verbose  	off
sourcepath     	on
xpg_echo       	off

I like what those three lines do, so I hope that this information is enough for you to find the bug and fix it :)

If not, I would be happy to provide any more info. Just let me know :)

Thank you in advance.
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