On Sunday, 20 March 2022 15:25:02 EDT Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:53:52 -0400 > > gene heskett <ghesk...@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. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
