On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 14:08:14 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Nate Bargmann composed on 2022-03-21 12:35 (UTC-0500): > > > tinkering with mc's config files directly which can only be done if all > > instances of mc are closed. > > Not IME, at least for ini and hotlist, the former which I change nearly as > often > with mcedit as I do via menu. Hotlist I only do with mcedit.
My recollection is that when you close mc, it writes back the current settings to the ini file, which is why I keep mine readonly. With multiple instances of mc running, one might get Nate's impression above, unless any changes intended to be persistent are made in the instance that's closed last. > Mcedit is giving me no trouble. I use most than once a day most days. I find the 4[Edit] key more useful as an extra alternative to 3[View] and [Return] in choosing the Edit/View/Open scripts to run from mc.ext, eg a different application, or windowed/fullscreen, or view metadata rather than the file, etc. If you want to edit the currently selected file, is there any major disadvantage in simply typing edit %p in mc's command line? There's one obvious advantage: you can type the name of any editor, rather than being restricted to the list given by select-editor (see Joe's post). Cheers, David.
