Re: mcedit has failed

You can access the file by running the command in terminal :

nano ~/.mc/mcedit.ini

If the file doesn't exist, you can create it.

It's also worth mentioning that some versions of mcedit may not use a
configuration file and instead rely on environment variables or
command-line options to set their settings.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 23:16 tgott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you tried:
> nano ~/.mc/mcedit.ini
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 22:55 Ben via mc <[email protected]>
> 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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