Re: Can't use mc's editor

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:53:52 -0400
gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:

> Greetings all;
> 
> The colors used by mc's editor are making the editor impossible to use as 
> they can't be used by someone with good color vision even, they are all 
> so alike.
> 
> Where can I change mc's default editor to something as clear and easy to 
> use as geany? Seems to me that used to be a menu choice, but thats not 
> findable when the menus except for the click on it character are all 
> solid 100% bright blue and cannot be read by human eyes.

There are two questions here:

1) How can mc's colors be changed?

Answer: via environment variables or the configuration file
(~/.config/mc/ini) - see the "Colors" section of the mc manpage.

2) How can mc's default editor be changed?

Answer: via mc.ext (copy /etc/mc/mc.ext to ~/.config/mc/mc.ext and edit
the copied version)

Celejar