id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	branch_state	votes
4529	"Misfeature: ""history"""	no		"Midnight Commander stores records of user activity in the file `~/.local/share/mc/history`, including directories visited and filenames manipulated.

I'm not assuming that anything nefarious is going on, but it's certainly unclear who this file is intended to benefit. I never found a feature of Midnight Commander that allows browsing this ""history"", and it doesn't appear to be documented. It may be leftover from some uncompleted or abandoned idea. The only references I can find to this file on the web are people trying to find out how to disable it.

Personally I am tired of having to remember to disable and delete it on every user account on every system where I install Midnight Commander. This misfeature is best deleted.

**At an ABSOLUTE MINIMUM, it must not be enabled by default.**

This history file in its current form, especially being undocumented and of unclear purpose, is useless, untidy, inappropriate, creepy, and may interfere with data protection legal requirements for some use cases."	defect	closed	critical		mc-core	master	wontfix					no branch