On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:25:02 -0400 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> 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. And a nasty job that is. And you *still* can't change the dark brown of programming comments to something readable on a dark background. > > 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) > Also: "Run MC as usual. On the command line right above the bottom row of menu selections type select-editor. This should open a menu with a list of all of your installed editors. This is working for me on all my current linux machines." https://askubuntu.com/questions/16776/how-to-switch-the-editor-in-mc-midnight-commander-from-nano-to-mcedit I think you're fairly limited in choices by default. I have a couple of other small text-mode editors installed, and mc can't see them. Probably best try nano unless you're particularly keen on vim. Don't forget that geany is a GUI IDE, whereas mc is a ncurses application. -- Joe