* On 2022 21 Mar 15:19 -0500, Joe wrote: > 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.
Actually, mc and mcedit are linked to libslang, not ncurses. Visually it's not much difference but otherwise a world of difference, mostly to developers. One thing that really helped me when working with mcedit is to have this snippet in my ~/.bashrc: # Modify Midnight Commander editor background color export MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\ editnormal=lightgray,black:\ editbold=yellow,black:\ editmarked=black,cyan" There may be more parameters available and it has been many years since I found that somewhere on the 'Net and I failed to note the source. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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