Re: Changing the background color of the editor

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Ian Brown wrote:

> Thanks Pavel ,
>
> I had closed mc and tried adding:
> editnormal=red
> editbold=red
> editmarked=red
> to the [Colors] section in mc.ini
>
> then I started mc; when editing a file with F4 (mcedit), the
> background is still blue.
>
> Any idea?

Yes! Read the man page :)

The syntax is like this:

[Colors]
base_color=editnormal=fg_color,bg_color:editbold=fg_color,bg_color:...