David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 20:55 (UTC-0500):
> 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.
Felix Miata composed on 2022-03-21 18:07 (UTC-0400):
> My main user's MC ini file was last written 8 years ago.
And, it's not immutable. On a second PC I have running Bookworm ATM, the last
write date on its MC ini is 9 days short of 5 years ago.
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