On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 22:43:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > 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.
But you also wrote: > 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. I've attached the result of that reversion (from buster). The critical line is, of course, line 4. I assume that, like me, a long time ago, you altered it to auto_save_setup=false. The default lines safe_delete=false and safe_overwrite=false are so dangerous that I don't rely just on line 4, but make ini readonly too. I keep my panels configuration readonly too (actually a symlink to a default-panels.ini or a single panelled my-panels.ini) to prevent accidents, though auto_save_setup_panels=false is the default anyway. Cheers, David.
[Midnight-Commander] verbose=true shell_patterns=true auto_save_setup=true preallocate_space=false auto_menu=false use_internal_view=true use_internal_edit=false clear_before_exec=true confirm_delete=true confirm_overwrite=true confirm_execute=false confirm_history_cleanup=true confirm_exit=false confirm_directory_hotlist_delete=false confirm_view_dir=false safe_delete=false safe_overwrite=false use_8th_bit_as_meta=false mouse_move_pages_viewer=true mouse_close_dialog=false fast_refresh=false drop_menus=false wrap_mode=true old_esc_mode=true cd_symlinks=true show_all_if_ambiguous=false use_file_to_guess_type=true alternate_plus_minus=false only_leading_plus_minus=true show_output_starts_shell=false xtree_mode=false file_op_compute_totals=true classic_progressbar=true use_netrc=true ftpfs_always_use_proxy=false ftpfs_use_passive_connections=true ftpfs_use_passive_connections_over_proxy=false ftpfs_use_unix_list_options=true ftpfs_first_cd_then_ls=true ignore_ftp_chattr_errors=true editor_fill_tabs_with_spaces=false editor_return_does_auto_indent=false editor_backspace_through_tabs=false editor_fake_half_tabs=true editor_option_save_position=true editor_option_auto_para_formatting=false editor_option_typewriter_wrap=false editor_edit_confirm_save=true editor_syntax_highlighting=true editor_persistent_selections=true editor_drop_selection_on_copy=true editor_cursor_beyond_eol=false editor_cursor_after_inserted_block=false editor_visible_tabs=true editor_visible_spaces=true editor_line_state=false editor_simple_statusbar=false editor_check_new_line=false editor_show_right_margin=false editor_group_undo=true editor_state_full_filename=true editor_ask_filename_before_edit=false nice_rotating_dash=true mcview_remember_file_position=false auto_fill_mkdir_name=true copymove_persistent_attr=true pause_after_run=1 mouse_repeat_rate=100 double_click_speed=250 old_esc_mode_timeout=1000000 max_dirt_limit=10 num_history_items_recorded=60 vfs_timeout=60 ftpfs_directory_timeout=900 ftpfs_retry_seconds=30 fish_directory_timeout=900 editor_tab_spacing=8 editor_word_wrap_line_length=72 editor_option_save_mode=0 editor_backup_extension=~ editor_filesize_threshold=64M editor_stop_format_chars=-+*\\,.;:&> mcview_eof= skin=default [Layout] message_visible=1 keybar_visible=1 xterm_title=1 output_lines=0 command_prompt=1 menubar_visible=1 free_space=1 horizontal_split=0 vertical_equal=1 left_panel_size=50 horizontal_equal=1 top_panel_size=1 [Misc] timeformat_recent=%b %e %H:%M timeformat_old=%b %e %Y ftp_proxy_host=gate ftpfs_password=anonymous@ display_codepage=UTF-8 source_codepage=Other_8_bit autodetect_codeset= spell_language=en clipboard_store= clipboard_paste= [Colors] base_color= xterm= color_terminals= [Panels] show_mini_info=true kilobyte_si=false mix_all_files=false show_backups=true show_dot_files=true fast_reload=false fast_reload_msg_shown=false mark_moves_down=true reverse_files_only=true auto_save_setup_panels=false navigate_with_arrows=false panel_scroll_pages=true panel_scroll_center=false mouse_move_pages=true filetype_mode=true permission_mode=false torben_fj_mode=false quick_search_mode=2 select_flags=6 [Panelize] Find *.orig after patching=find . -name \\*.orig -print Find SUID and SGID programs=find . \\( \\( -perm -04000 -a -perm /011 \\) -o \\( -perm -02000 -a -perm /01 \\) \\) -print Find rejects after patching=find . -name \\*.rej -print Modified git files=git ls-files --modified
