How to change the defaults for file highlighting?

[Theodore Kilgore]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 13:39 -0600, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Now if someone can specify exactly which code version this is and
>> exactly where to get it?
>
> [Midnight-Commander]
> select_flags = ...
>
>
> /* selection flags */
> typedef enum {
>    SELECT_FILES_ONLY = 1 << 0,
>    SELECT_MATCH_CASE = 1 << 1,
>    SELECT_SHELL_PATTERNS = 1 << 2
> } select_flags_t;

I guess I am not out of the woods, yet. Two things:

1. I updated the git tree, re-compiled, and re-installed. No problem about 
that. But then I looked in my ini file, and I see no such option as

select_flags =

The only thing which comes up when searching the file for "select" is

editor_persistent_selections=1

which would seem quite irrelevant.

OK, so I thought perhaps extreme measures ought to be tried. I downloaded 
a clean copy of the git tree, and I did make uninstall on the old one and 
did make install on the new one. Then, on trying to make it work, I got an 
error message, that /usr/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh can not be found. So 
apparently there is some funny business with the installer not putting a 
crucial file where it is supposed to be.

Fortunately, I have a Slackware tarball of an older version which works, 
so I am not left entirely without one of my favorite programs.

In any event, I could never find out how to enable the specific feature we 
have been discussing. Finding the lines in the code which you quoted 
earlier were not a big help in that regard.

Thus, not much progress, I am sorry to say.

Theodore Kilgore