Editors are broken after update

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:12 +0100, Herbert J. Skuhra <hskuhra at eumx.net>  
wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100
> "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart
>> Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too?
>>
>> $ su -
>> Password:
>> root at freebsd:/root # mcedit
>>
>> Error
>> "/root" is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
>
> https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2754
>
> There is a patch that fixes this problem:
>
> <https://www.midnight-commander.org/changeset/529a7ba24c9da9fdb1df939ff0fe35c6d27e65df>
>
> Maintainer CC'ed.

I didn't notice that it does run with an exiting file-name, but it does

$ mcedit /etc/fstab

is ok.

It's also ok for a file that doesn't exist

$ mcedit foo

this didn't work before I deleted the mc contend in /home/user_name.

Thank you!