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3770	Feature request: allow user to disable % macros on command line only	cri		"It would be useful to have a (runtime) configuration option to disable %x macro substitutions on mc command line (disabling them only there, not in user menu command definitions).

Rationale: I often have a hard time trying to understand why some commands lines don't work the way they are supposed to, just to find out that somewhere in the line there's a % character that is interpreted by mc as the start of a macro.

Since the % macros don't exist in my shell, I never use them in my command lines, so there's no need to have them in mc command lines too.
In fact it is essential that commands typed on the mc command line should work exactly as if they were typed on a regular terminal, without overimposing new syntactic features.

An example: % characters sometimes contained in URLs: even enclosing the URL in single or double quotes doesn't prevent mc from expanding the % macros.

So, it would be useful to have some `macro_cl_enable` configuration option in the ini file (of course, default on, for backwards compatibility)."	enhancement	new	major	Future Releases	mc-core	master			egmont			no branch