change default configuration

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

I fought against it for quite some time, but, in the end, this was not a fight that I could win. Debian Policy says it should be this way, thus so it is, and so it will be :-/

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> On 27. Jul 2018, at 21:06, Felix Miata via mc-devel <mc-devel at gnome.org> wrote:
> 
> Egmont Koblinger composed on 2018-07-27 20:43 (UTC+0200):
> 
>> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 
>>> fwiw, i always found that default setting rather surprising and
>>> counter-productive, too. the vim/emacs/etc. hardliners will find the way
>>> to launch their personal deity, err, preferred editor soon enough, while
>>> average joe (in as far as he uses mc at all) won't appreciate being
>>> dropped into vi by default ("how do i quit that crap?!" was also my
>>> first experience).
> 
> +++
> 
>> I fully agree, and recommend to change the default to mcedit.
> 
> AFAICT, external is a misfeature of .deb mc packages, one of the most annoying
> things about using Knoppix (pause after run off in mc being the other). Fedora
> and openSUSE rpms AFAICR are always mcedit.
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