On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 19:34:46 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * 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.
man mc ? Cheers, David.
