[mc] mcedit has failed

tgott gottlists at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 15:16:31 UTC 2023


Have you tried:
nano ~/.mc/mcedit.ini


On Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 22:55 Ben via mc <mc at lists.midnight-commander.org>
wrote:

> I was editing a text file, and at one point I defined a macro for q, which
> worked;
>
> But I may have hit something else, I don't know, and mcedit fell into a
> round of assertions so fast I couldn't read them go by.
>
> I killed the shell (mcedit wasn't responding to control-c), restarted
> mcedit to edit the file again and...
>
> (1) it said there was a lock on the file and I could not save, nor could I
> find a way to remove the lock;
>
> (2) pressing return appears to run the Q macro, which is "move down a line
> and delete about 20 characters."
>
> I can't find where mcedit has its settings; I'm running MacOS Ventura
> 13.0.1 and mcedit 4.8.28
>
> I've looked in:
>
> ~/.config/mc/mcedit  (empty)
> ~/.local/share/mc/mcedit  (empty)
>
> Can anyone help me get mcedit back to its initial state?
>
> TIA
>
> --Ben
>
>
>
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