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Re: Can't use mc's editor



* On 2022 21 Mar 15:19 -0500, Joe wrote:
> Probably best try nano unless you're particularly keen on vim. Don't
> forget that geany is a GUI IDE, whereas mc is a ncurses application.

Actually, mc and mcedit are linked to libslang, not ncurses.  Visually
it's not much difference but otherwise a world of difference, mostly to
developers.

One thing that really helped me when working with mcedit is to have this
snippet in my ~/.bashrc:

# Modify Midnight Commander editor background color
export MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\
editnormal=lightgray,black:\
editbold=yellow,black:\
editmarked=black,cyan"

There may be more parameters available and it has been many years since
I found that somewhere on the 'Net and I failed to note the source.

- Nate

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