How to change the prompt of mc's subshell

Question

I often use the subshell of mc. So I want the promt of mc-subsell to be different form the primary shell. Say, how can I change the sub-prompt like this:

mc:$Current_dir$

many thanks

Answer 1

This page may help you. An excerpt:

Bash allows users to do very advanced things when defining shell prompt, including colours and propagation of information into xterm title. Unfortunately, when you want to use mc (Midnight Commander) in conjunction with bash prompts, you may find, that not all advanced escape sequences are handled by mc properly. To overcome this issue you can have a special prompt just for mc.

What you wanted:

if ps $PPID |grep mc; then
    PS1="mc: \w"
fi