Re: Can't use mc's editor

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Sunday, 20 March 2022 15:25:02 EDT Celejar wrote:
> 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
> 
Sounds great, Calejar, I'll give it a try.  Thank you, take care and stay 
well.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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