[mc] ~/.config/mc/filehighlight.ini

Yury V. Zaytsev yury at shurup.com
Tue Dec 16 16:35:13 UTC 2025


> On 16. Dec 2025, at 15:53, Mike McClain via mc <mc at lists.midnight-commander.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 12:05:35PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15. Dec 2025, at 23:20, Mike McClain via mc <mc at lists.midnight-commander.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In hopes of getting *.pdf to display in color diferent from text files
>>> I copied /etc/mc/filehighlight.ini to  ~/.config/mc/ and added pdf; to
>>> the {graph] line.
>>> That didn't change the display of *.pdf even after killing and
>>> restarting all instances of mc.
>>> What am I not understanding?
>> 
>> You also have to remove it from the doc section.
>> 
> Did that not only in /etc/mc but also in ~/.config/mc,
> not seeing a change.
> MC 4.8.2.9 on a Raspberry PI 4B running Devuan excalibur.
> Other suggestions?

Sorry, no idea. Works for me on the latest master. You are at least 4 releases behind.




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