MCVIEW(1) GNU Midnight Commander MCVIEW(1)
NAME
mcview - Internal file viewer of GNU Midnight Commander.
SYNOPSIS
mcview [-bcCdfhstVx?] file
DESCRIPTION
mcview is a link to mc, the main GNU Midnight Commander executable. Executing GNU Mid-
night Commander under this name requests staring the internal viewer and opening the file
specified on the command line.
OPTIONS
-b Force black and white display.
-c Force color mode on terminals where mcview defaults to black and white.
-C <keyword>=<fgcolor>,<bgcolor>,<attributes>:<keyword>= ...
Specify a different color set. See the Colors section in mc(1) for more informa-
tion.
-d Disable mouse support.
-f Display the compiled-in search paths for Midnight Commander files.
-t Used only if the code was compiled with S-Lang and terminfo: it makes Midnight Com-
mander use the value of the TERMCAP variable for the terminal information instead
of the information on the system wide terminal database
-V Displays the version of the program.
-x Forces xterm mode. Used when running on xterm-capable terminals (two screen modes,
and able to send mouse escape sequences).
COLORS
The default colors may be changed by appending to the MC_COLOR_TABLE environment variable.
Foreground and background colors pairs may be specified for example with:
MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\
normal=lightgray,black:\
selected=black,green"
FILES
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp
The help file for the program.
/usr/share/mc/mc.ini
The default system-wide setup for GNU Midnight Commander, used only if the user's
own ~/.config/mc/ini file is missing.
/usr/share/mc/mc.lib
Global settings for Midnight Commander. Settings in this file affect all users,
whether they have ~/.config/mc/ini or not.
~/.config/mc/ini
User's own setup. If this file is present, the setup is loaded from here instead
of the system-wide startup file.
LICENSE
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation. See the built-in help of Midnight Commander for details
on the License and the lack of warranty.
AVAILABILITY
The latest version of this program can be found at http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/.
SEE ALSO
mc(1), mcedit(1)
BUGS
Bugs should be reported to http://www.midnight-commander.org/.
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