Re: Can't use mc's editor
On Monday, 21 March 2022 18:07:28 EDT Felix Miata wrote:
> gene heskett composed on 2022-03-21 17:26 (UTC-0400):
> > whatever I do to it, has zero effect.
>
> IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all
> instances of MC are closed, and its ini file is then removed, every
> setting (except for panels configuration? and hotlist), gets reverted
> to default on next startup.
>
> Long long ago, MC user settings were in ~/.mc/. Now they are in
> ~/.config/mc/. For old users you still have you might want to
> eradicate any ~/.mc/ directories. My ~/.config/mc/ is a symlink to
> ~/.mc/.
>
> My main user's MC ini file was last written 8 years ago.
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>
> Felix Miata
>
Noted, thanks Felix. But it doesn't change a whit when I set the kde5
colors to something a little easier on these ancient eyes. I went looking
for something that if I print a msg from kmail, the whole header was
white text on an ounce of black toner. Obviously that had to be fixed. :)
Thanks Felix, take care and stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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